Australia - Down syndrome? Keep Out!
With the left’s push for universal health care and socialized medicine would come related decisions like this case.
A German doctor and his family, desiring to become permanent residents of Australia, rejected because his 13-year old son has Down syndrome.
“A medical officer of the Commonwealth assessed that his son’s existing medical condition was likely to result in a significant and ongoing cost to the Australian community,” a departmental spokesman said in a statement issued Thursday by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
Further in the article, they explain how the health requirement, a restriction on immigration, is based on affordability.
“If we did not have a health requirement, the costs to the community and health system would not be sustainable,” the statement said.
Well, if the government did not have to provide the health care, then it would not be a problem, would it?
Expect situations like this to occur if we end up with a universal, federally managed health care system.
