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haifagirl
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Let’s agree that it’s a chiyuv on the community to provide health care for all. (If it isn’t, it should be.) But is is a chiyuv on the community to provide health care for non-Jews? Any option that requires citizens to have insurance, be it public or private, is requiring them to fund health care for non-Jews.

That means providing maternity coverage for every 16-year-old who chooses to get pregnant. Or alternatively, providing abortions for those same people. (There are some proposals that would not cover abortions.)

It means providing health care for those who have, through various lifestyle choices, endangered their health unnecessarily.

Do we, as a community, have a chiyuv to provide for everybody else?