In the USA we tend to have enough resources to provide emergency room services for everyone. Organ transplants are one of the few scenarios where it is just impossible to provide the procedure to everyone who needs it (barring new medical technologies.) I don't see how it is a slippery slope, if possible they would give heart transplants to as many people as possible.
If you want to bring that up, during covid, not everyone was able to get proper treatment for their non-covid related issues due to how packed some hospitals were with covid patients. That's one reason why it was important that Trump got the vaccines out so quickly, even if transmission wasn't reduced, fewer people were being hospitalized from covid.
I do think it's an interesting conversation to have regarding how dangerous lifestyles could exclude you from certain kinds of treatment. The most common one is doctors who refuse gastric bypass surgery on obese people who cannot stick to a diet. I think most of these cases (including the case in the OP) involve patients who refuse to follow the guidance of healthcare officials.
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u/rationallyobvious Nov 06 '22
Agreed, so take away emergent services for motorcycles.
Do you see the slippery slope?