A National Health Service trust in the UK has announced that it will deny treatment to patients it deems are ‘racists’ or ‘sexists’.

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[–]Cade_Connelly_13 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Trying to equate a private business with a public service funded by taxpayer dollars? Seriously?

[–]Otacon 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Publicly funded services are already subject to this phenomenon. I haven't seen a whole lot of conservative outcry about catholic hospitals either.

[–]khsdafhlsadf 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Now you're equating a single or small group of providers not providing elective procedures with a clear and highly restricted moral objection with a nations entire health system allowing denial of coverage, including emergencies it would seem, based on a values judgement of, let's face it, untrained and very likely biased individuals. This is probably the worst case of false equivalence fallacy I've seen in a long time.

I've been flipped. I've been rooting for national healthcare in the US, but this is a rock solid argument against it.

[–]Otacon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Catholic hospitals can deny emergency service. I already pointed this out earlier

[–]thefadd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Obviously, you’d be denied service in the UK, you racist POS.