Healthcare Will Be Linked to Reproduction

Since healthcare is at its root an ethical question, at some point we are going to end up linking it to reproduction.

In any place where some sort of minimum healthcare is guaranteed, the society immediately faces the question of when to give up on people and let them die. Taking this a little further, it seems likely that at some point some governments will likely tie healthcare to reproduction.

That is, either you can live, or your children can live. The more children you have, the less healthcare the society will be likely to want to give to you.

Though it may seem cruel, it is a rather fair way of looking at the issue. If someone has ten children, they are creating ten more consumers of the healthcare system. At some point, the system needs to cut off the parent in favor of the children.

The Healthcare Issue Is about Choosing Who Dies When

Modern medical technology has advanced to the point where the United States cannot pay for all the healthcare we can give. Considering the millions of dollars it can take to keep one person alive, how can we expect to offer total healthcare to every citizen?

This means that at some point we have to decide when it is not cost effective to keep someone alive. No politician wants to admit this, so we keep pretending that it's not the central issue. But it is, and until we admit it, we will not be able to solve the "healthcare problem."