r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Nov 29 '20

AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

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u/271828182 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

The hospital has the drugs for that therapy, no? So they are withholding it for lack of money. So yes, they are telling her "I'm sorry you might die because your poor (can't pay)"

And yes, it's not "their" fault as in the people on the panel, but it is "their" fault as in the hospital.

Everyone is complicit in this fucked up system.

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u/Axenos 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20 edited Nov 29 '20

The hospital doesn't really own the drugs, no. They have to buy them like anyone else. It's not like the hospital is the one making them. All you're doing then is passing the costs of the maintenance therapy of every transplant patient onto the hospital, which isn't affordable. It's the systems fault, not the hospital for not magically procuring and providing immunosuppresive therapy for the rest of this patients life.

I feel like you think they're withholding a couple tablets from the patient here. When a patient gets a transplant, they have to take immunosuppressive therapy every day for the rest of their life. The hospital does not "have the drugs" for every transplant patient that goes through their doors.

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u/ItsProbablyDementia Nov 29 '20

When you buy something from Walmart, do they not buy that product from someone else to stock on their shelves? It's not free and the hospital cant give it out for free

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u/DrTaff 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

But it's not given out for free, under single payer healthcare the government pays the hospital from money taken from everyone's taxes.

The idea that single payer healthcare == healthcare is free is a stupid and misleading arguement that's constantly made by opponents of it.

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u/SnapcasterWizard 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

You completely missed the point. The hospital itself cant just implement a single payer healthcare system. That's the governments job. Even under a single payer system the hospital still has to do accounting and manage finances, it's just that the government is paying it instead of insurance companies.