Message from @DrYuriMom
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That's just a variation on "current year" arguments.
Well we now are seeing male hemophiliacs have progeny for the first time in Earth history. Why? Because modern medicine!
Now *there* is an ethical dilemma for you.
I predict within another 200 years human beings will be entirely birthed with C-sections. Why? Modern Medicine! Women who died in childbirth now have kids and pass genes on that are not conducive to vaginal births.
Cat, do you see modern medicine allowing people with heritable aliments reproduce enough that we may go back to the idea of eugenics in a serious manner?
I'm damn glad of that or I wouldn't have kids and my wife might be dead.
@Malt_Hitman , that's a political and not a medical question
I'm a doctor not a politician, Jim!
:p
lets just skip to brains in engineered bodies that live forever and just outlaw having kids on established planets.
want kids, go to the outer colonies.
oh, and we will rip their brains out of their bodies and place them in these human 2.0 bodies. because that is the ethical thing to do
You're a doctor but you work (I assume) in a hospital and I'd guess you deal with insurance companies. Does that idea ever get brought up seriously? I'd assume it would at least arrise when dealing with people who work in insurance companies jokingly.
Mmmm, brains. (hey, it's almost Halloween :p )
"Brians, BRIANS!"
"Caboose its brains"
"Oh....moaning, mooooaning"
@Malt_Hitman , what get brought up? Why should live and who should die?
money
money deicides that
The idea that people with heritable illnesses cost more money to keep healthy.
Oh, they do
Most hospitals are non-profit and exist to serve everyone
I won't work for a for-profit. My profession is my vocation.
That said, insurance companies tinker with it. But ultimately that's a political debate. We're having it right now. It's called pre-existing conditions.
@DrYuriMom so, how accurate is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8
@Grenade123 , as is often the case, this is a very selective presentation. Still watching.
i mean, it is a show, so of course
In can tell you that non-profit hospitals are suffering
are non-profit anything ever not suffering?
Medicaid pays about 75% of the cost (not charges) it takes to treat patients
Medicare pays about 95%
Commercial insurance about 120% but that has to offset the other moneylosers
My particular health system made a 0.7% margin two years ago
@Jasse, you lost me at the "American College of Pediatricians". An organization of about 500 members compared to the American Academy of Pediatrics with about 64,000 members
Have not watched those vids, but here's my stance on trans:
I don't recall the exact numbers, but there is an absurd amount of suicide attempts made by trans people above the national average. Even the most passive google search lists the rates on the LOW end as 35%, and the high end marks some studies as as high as 78%.
And while I fully accept that causation does not equal correlation, I will 100% stand behind the fact that any condition that is this closely linked with suicide attempts, is absolutely mental health problem, and must be treated as such.
We're not talking popularity, we're talking professional associations and their collective wisdom
@Jasse that fallacy equality applies to you