Pediatrician Refuses Treatment of Baby of Lesbian Parents

[Iroscato]

You know what? That's the problem. Healthcare isn't a commodity to be sold. At least it shouldn't be. I worked as a medic for several years and if we only cared for the people we liked, every homeless, every drunk would have been left to rot in the gutter. That's why healthcare shouldn't be a commodity. It's not grocery shopping after all.

First, Healthcare is a commodity whether want it to be or not. It is human labor and human labor is a commodity.  Would you have done that job for free?  If healthcare isn't a commodity to be sold, you should be willing to provide it whenever it is needed without any compensation whatsoever.  

Second, declaring Health Care not to be a commodity doesn't refute my point.  I'm sure there were plenty of times when you had to provide care to someone who stank....and it was quite difficult to endure.  In those times, how much of your brain was focused on dealing with the stink instead of working out how to best provide care?   In your situation, as an emergency medic, it is unavoidable.....and you probably had to do it as a condition of your employment.

This situation is quite different.  Its not an emergency. It is not a condition of her employment(she may be a partner).  There is another doctor right there who is happy to take on the patient so the market is serving this person.   So why not let the doctor who wants to see the child....see the child.  Why not let the doctor who does not want to see the child refrain?

Why can you not see that any doctor who refuses to treat a child based on her background does not deserve to practice medicine in the first place? When your job is to help people and save lives, you cannot bring your personal views into that profession.
And trying to turn medical care into a commodity to be bought and traded will lead you down a veeery dangerous path, as evidenced by the increasingly unfair and mismanaged US healthcare system.

Edited to fix faulty quotation - Pandæmonium