(June 12, 2014 at 1:43 pm)Heywood Wrote: The government denying someone health care is essentially a law barring that person from receiving health care. Simply stopping paying for health care is not denying it....it is simply stopping paying for it.
The government used to hand out cheese to poor people. They stopped..does that mean the government has denied cheese to poor people? Of course not.
Even if Brat wanted to deny people Medicare(which he never claimed)....Medicare is not health care. Medicare is an entitlement that pays for health care. The claim that Brat wants to deny healthcare to seniors is an obvious lie.....designed to get people to hate Brat.
The cheese example is stupid. The cheese was accumulated for reasons not associated with providing for the poor. The disbursement to the poor in order to get rid of excess stockpiles was a rational thing to do. Cheese is also listed as a specific product provided for under W.I.C. so the government is still specifically paying for cheese.
Your case is hopeless if you are relying on the absurd distinction between clinical execution of healthcare and the mechanism used to pay for it.
Let's imagine that I pulled a chair out from under you as you went to sit down; this results in you cracking your tailbone requiring medical expenses. Your reasoning suggests that I am not responsible or liable for the injury if I simply state that I didn't cause you harm; I simply moved a chair.
