Yes, people do actually die and suffer from being unable to afford healthcare.
marci, you say not providing healthcare isn’t intrinsically evil, but that is your thought, and it is not a fact like you presented it to be. In the church we have a confession, which asks for forgiveness for “what I have done, and what I have failed to do”. I do think it is cruel to deny healthcare to ailing people, whatever their level of sickness- from a broken leg, to a lost finger, to a deadly disease.
I am not asserting abortion is more or less evil than this. They are both terrible. A voter has to look at the candidate’s policies (it does not have to be part of his campaign platform for him to support it), and decide whose are better. This is NOT a philosophical debate about which is worse. As I made in my very first post, my point is thus: generally, in an election, both sides will have one or two policies that are not likeable (I assume you also agree withholding healthcare is cruel). In which case, a voter must pick which candidates policies are better. It is rare to agree 100% with every single policy, so usually voters (generally speaking, not applicable to everyone) have to pick between the “lesser of two evils”, just as you did.
So please, look at what I am saying and not what you think I’m saying. These are both very sad issues, which makes it more important than ever that we pick very carefully who we vote for and campaign for change.
P.S. JR, my initial post is an argument from analogy, it’s a valid form of reasoning.
