So I find this a bad poster-child case. Lundgren's catastrophic empathy failure is more easily seen by applying his argument to prescription medications... or flu shots for the elderly.
Last year, the doctors didn't let my mother leave the office before they forced a flu shot on her. [Yes, she qualifies under elderly.] While she won't outright refuse it if it is very convenient (i.e., bundled into some other doctor's appointment), she won't get one of her own accord. She refuses to both explicitly scheduling a doctor's visit for one, and using the free flu shot drives to get one.
So...I think they did "the right thing". Lundgren's empathic deficiency suggests he'd amorally disagree with that.
(My main issue with Medicare D, is not the intention — it's another example of insurance that people usually don't buy when they should, just like OASDI. But unlike OASDI, it does not appear sustainable.)
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:27 am (UTC)Last year, the doctors didn't let my mother leave the office before they forced a flu shot on her. [Yes, she qualifies under elderly.] While she won't outright refuse it if it is very convenient (i.e., bundled into some other doctor's appointment), she won't get one of her own accord. She refuses to both explicitly scheduling a doctor's visit for one, and using the free flu shot drives to get one.
So...I think they did "the right thing". Lundgren's empathic deficiency suggests he'd amorally disagree with that.
(My main issue with Medicare D, is not the intention — it's another example of insurance that people usually don't buy when they should, just like OASDI. But unlike OASDI, it does not appear sustainable.)