You could use that justify spending on almost anything.
Doctors, not med students. Take out a loan. That’s what those of us do who are not covered by the government spoils system.
Gee, I dunno. Since the government wasted their time writing and passing this bill, it seems to have become a “government solution” to a non-existent problem.
Again, why would they ? They’re making good money. They’ve made it. They’re halfway out of the student loans they got at Mafia rates to even get there. Why would they pay for anything else ?
No. If the funding wasn’t a legitimate government expense in the first place, you don’t get to claim it’s overreaching government to eliminate that spending.
At first, I thought this applied to all residency programs funded under Medicare, and was properly (I think) outraged.
But on reading the article it appears it only applies to a new grant program for health training centers created by the PPACA? In that case, meh, stupid pro-life grandstanding - unsurprising, but no more than their usual bullshit.
Oh wait - so you don’t approve of Medicare paying resident training at all?
How do you suppose we train doctors for accreditation after med school?
However, that doesn’t appear to be what this bill is about anyways, so it’s probably irrelevant.
That was seriously disturbing…it’s even more disturbing when I realize that some of my relatives would consider the death of a woman in such a case to be “part of God’s plan”.
Or a Republican congressman
“The proposal was presented as an amendment to the latest of several GOP bills to restrict funding for the health care act that was enacted last year.”
The health care act wasn’t a legitimate government expense? Neat trick.
I bet you’ll tell me that abortions aren’t legitimate health care procedures next. :rolleyes:
We’re talking about one amendment. That amendment doesn’t repeal the entire act.
I’ll bet you’re an idiot.
Eliminating ALL spending on medical training would be an indication of economic priorities. I wouldn’t necessarily agree, but I wouldn’t call it misogynistic.
SPECIFICALLY eliminating funding for abortion training, on the other hand, cannot be anything but a principled stand against women’s health.
Doctors also rack up huge amounts of debt on the road to becoming doctors. HUGE. When they’re starting out, they are mostly paying off those debts, and have very little discretionary income.
And sometimes, a doctor will need to perform an abortion immediately. As in, the patient is gonna die in a few minutes or hours, and there’s no time to call in another doctor, if one is even available. Should we NOT train doctors to perform emergency appendectomies, because such procedures are so rarely needed? The thing is, emergency treatment is emergency treatment, and ALL doctors need to be trained in it, and a doctor who refuses to perform emergency treatment AND WHO ALSO REFUSES TO CALL IN ANOTHER DOCTOR to perform it should lose his license.
You can disagree with the premise that we ought to spend federal money to train doctors, but the bottom line is that we do already. The question, therefore, is whether or not it should be left up to political ideology, and not medical science, to determine what we train doctors to do. That being said, I would say the definitive answer is no, as long as abortion remains a legal medical procedure, it needs to be taught as part of the curriculum in medical school as it may one day be required for whatever reason necessary, and more highly trained doctors are better than less highly trained ones.
I dunno, just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it “the army”, but a more alarmist name would be… THE KILLBOT FACTORY!
Well, sure, but they mostly kill brown people. So, you know.
-Joe
Come on. Seriously. They’ve launched either 600 or 900 bills this year, which restrict a woman’s right to get an abortion. No other bill has specifically targeted anybody else by gender. The number alone tells you something.
It’s a principled stand against killing babies. They think a fetus is a person. None of the other training that money is spent on results in the death of a person.
This is not rocket surgery, unless you refuse to accept that the other side actually holds principled beliefs.
Since they are Republicans and politicians, I wouldn’t say that possibility is totally out of the question.
But even then, many still allow for the exceptions in the case of rape, incest, or the health of the mother. This demonstrates that they indeed have no such exceptions, and would rather a woman die because she could not receive a legal medical procedure than to train doctors to do their jobs appropriately. It appears to be a less a principled stand against killing babies and more one favor of letting women die from lack of access to medical care.
Does that mean we need to make sure no funding goes to training doctors on handling No Resuscitation Orders too (or whatever the term is)?
And while were on sore subjects, I’d like to make sure none of my tax dollars go toward training doctors in any sort of reconstructive surgery because I think old ladies with facelifts are vain assholes. How come my principles aren’t being pandered to?