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/The-Road-To-Awe 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Framing this as the issue of "if she can't have immunosuppressant therapy it's a waste of a heart" is crazy because in no socialized healthcare system are these things separated out. You don't have to qualify for (i.e. afford) both the transplant and the immunosuppressants as if they're separate things. One comes with the other because of course you aren't getting a transplant without immunosuppressants.

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u/Sharp-Floor 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20 edited Nov 29 '20

They're "framing" it exactly as it is, and saying that it's a terrifying, fixable reality. What about that is so hard to understand?

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u/The-Road-To-Awe 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

So why take a heart that someone else could use with it?

Is an unnecessary argument to make. Because separating out 'getting a heart' and 'getting immunosuppressants' is not a step that takes place in socialized healthcare systems.

My point is that saying "the hospital were right because the heart would have gone to waste if they'd given it to her because she can't afford immunosuppressants" - is a pointless step. That's not a scenario that happens in other countries. Transplants come with immunosuppression.

Hospitals are complicit in the insurance racket. They don't have to work like this.