Morality and Empathy

I wish I could remember who first posted that:

When Ron Paul began to practice medicine, people had heart attacks, and died.
When Ron Paul began to practice medicine, people contracted cancer, and died.
When Ron Paul began to practice medicine, premature babies were born, then quickly died.
When Ron Paul began to practice medicine, people with torn ACL limped for the rest of their lives.

Today, all of those things are treatable. Treatments which keep people alive and improve their well being cost more than simply letting them die, or letting them "live with it."

Mr. Paul is simply out of touch with the reality of the practice of medicine - likely because he stopped being a doctor in 1976 when he switched careers to become a politician.

Not one person on the stage had the moral courage to disagree, not one person had the empathy for a dying person.  What has become of America? 

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