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In reply to the discussion: Message auto-removed [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Health care IS a human right.
There are a more patients in need of a heart transplant than there are donor hearts to go around.
This requires that the limited number of available hearts go to where they will do the most good.
Heart recipients are required to take immune suppressing drugs in order to adjust to the transplant. That renders them particularly prone to infection by a lot of diseases.
For this reason, they are required to be vaccinated against a lot of diseases BEFORE they get the transplant.
We are currently in the midst of a global pandemic, against which vaccines have been proven to reduce risks associated with infection.
This fucking idiot believes he is entitled to squander the opportunity he wants to DENY to some other patient, by receiving one of the limited number of available hearts based on his completely voluntary non-compliance with the protocol required for this form of health care.
Yes, health care is a right. He has voluntarily chosen to reject what is required to receive this form of health care.
It is his right to reject to receive treatment, and that is what he is doing here.