One From the Debate
September 26, 2008
McCain just said something to the effect that healthcare should be between the patient and the physician, not the federal government. Can I hold him to that on reproductive health and “conscience?”
*cough*
Update: For reference, I looked at a transcript of the debate. Here’s the exact quote, and the context was a question from Lehrer about how the financial crisis would affect either candidate’s Presidency; McCain was referring to Obama’s health care plan: “I want the families to make decisions between themselves and their doctors. Not the federal government.”
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I don’t think that’s at all the context he was referring to, but even so, wouldn’t that mean that he would support a physician making their own decision on care to offer?
I think a physician’s personal ethics shouldnt’ have any place in medicine. You’re there to do a job, do it. Assign the medication/treatment/whatever that your patient needs without judgement or reservation. This is what you’ve trained for and worked for so just shut up and do it.
Oh my god, I thought the very same thing. What a freaking hypocrite.