Now think of yourself in an auto accident, and as you get hoisted into an ambulance, wondering about all the people with financial interests in mind looking at your damaged body and going "Ka-Ching!" as they total up the costs of fixing you, vs. the benefits of using you as a source of spare parts .
No thanks.
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Echoing what nazani14 said, medical care personnel are paid well enough with benefits that they are not in need of a clandestine side business of selling organs.
Secondly, EMS are required not only by ethics, but also in many instances of company policy and law to treat everyone the same level of care no matter what. That care includes trying to save a person that doesn't have obvious sign(s) of death or a Do-Not-Resuscitate order for the EMS to have and hold for their records.
Lastly, organ donation is a lot more carefully considered, selected, and monitored for safe and effective transplanting to the recipient. If a person dies in a car wreck on the streets, EMS is not going to scoop that person up to take to the hospital for organ harvesting. Organ donation is done when a person is already in the hospital, but unfortunately doesn't have a possibility of surviving or has just went into brain death.
So what I'm really trying to tell you, G2geek, is that EMS isn't going to take your precious organs if you get in an emergency situation. We're your friends trying to help you survive.
The same doctors who "harvest" organs do not take care of you before you die. That policy is designed to prevent exactly the scenario you are wailing about here .
@creativerealms
"Social health care." Such a buzzword. It's emblematic of a classic conservative strategy: link something benign, even slightly centre-right like liberalism, to socialism and then conflate that with DURTY C0MM13Z, therefore killing it.
I never quite understood the hullabaloo behind single-payer health care.
It always amuses me when people think they're pulling one over on "evil", but only if this evil is really half-assing it.
This fool's entire premise is based on the idea that people who would let a guy die to harvest his or her organs will draw the moral line at forging a signature on an organ donor card.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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