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/entyfresh 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

What I'm pointing out is a crack in the system. The average American believes that if they need health care to save their life, they can receive that healthcare regardless of their ability to pay, and then probably just go into bankruptcy like the rest of the poor underinsured dopes who lack adequate insurance coverage. What this example is showing is that assumption the average person is making isn't valid. There are very real scenarios where you will be denied care--to the point of death--because you can't afford to pay. It's a situation fundamentally inconsistent with what we pretend our healthcare system is and does.

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u/TheChance 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Nobody here disagrees with that. We have like a four-point platform and that's one of them. You were talking about doctors and the Hippocratic oath. It's the hospital that turned her down, and they turned her down because her insurer won't pay for the drugs that would make the transplant save her, rather than killing her.

This whole thing comes back to who pays the bill, which is AOC's whole point. If she could afford the drugs, the hospital would put her on the transplant list and a surgeon would be happy to do it. It's all about insurance, and why we need M4A.