I think having the taxpayer pay for expensive fertility treatments should be an option of last resort. It would make more sense to empty out all the orphanages first.
Aren't we messing with natural selection when we enable people to beat cancer when their body cannot do so on their own? If their risk of cancer is genetic, won't that mean we'll be carrying that risk forward?
Anyway, I'd rather have people that don't get cancer. Also, cancer can be largely a product of the host body's environment. Genetics only play so much of a role. Why not kill the person?
I think having the taxpayer pay for expensive cancer treatments should be an option of last resort. It would make more sense to empty out all of the hospital beds first.
Funny how suddenly you will be against this idea.
More seriously, infertility may be the only genetic limitation in a couple, and you cannot pick "better" genotypes from the litter when adopting anyway. What if the two brilliant people, who happen to be Olympic athletes, decide to breed, but then they run into these issues?
In your world view, their "inferior" genes should be cut off before they can continue simply because they have a single, very obvious issue. In my world view, both the cancer plagued person, and the infertile person should be able to seek medical help. And, most importantly, it's this slanted view that is the basis for rejecting the notion that government's should decide what qualifies as acceptable treatment.
That does not mean that people like me believe that the status quo is acceptable, nor do we believe that the current system in the United States was acceptable. We believe that the the government should actually break the monopolistic holds that certain insurance agencies have on certain states, thus opening up the market to a significant level of competition. At the exact same time, tort reform needs to occur to limit the cost of litigation due to things that are not even remotely reasonable--the always-relevant Hot Coffee incident comes to mind. Unlike the measures that have currently been taken, those would actually cause an immediate decrease in the cost of health care, and doctors could work toward getting out of the CYA business and move toward total care, such as the care provided by DO's.