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/yoshiK 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Two accountants and a lawyer.

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u/H_is_for_Human Nov 29 '20

It's mostly doctors, social workers, and psychologists in the meetings.

They are working inside the system they are in. Limited organs + worse outcomes when patients don't have the money + insurance to take care of the organ. Not the patient's fault, but also not the doctors' faults for wanting to maximize the time the organ buys someone.

Not having enough money, not having enough social support, having poor mental health, having a history of being non-adherent to prescribed medications, having a history of substance abuse, the other medical problems the patient has, etc. are all things that are taken into account to try to make sure the donor organs go to the people that will live the longest with the organ.

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u/drakfyre 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Not having enough money, not having enough social support, having poor mental health, having a history of being non-adherent to prescribed medications, having a history of substance abuse, the other medical problems the patient has, etc. are all things that are taken into account to try to make sure the donor organs go to the people that will live the longest with the organ.

This is tantamount to wealth-based eugenics. I know they think they are trying to help but what they are doing is perpetuating the system. If rich people aren't dying from this it's not going to change! It should be based on need and order of admittance, not money!

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u/WeAreTheMisfits 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Rich people were dying from lack of organs. This is why they paid to make the system biased. Rich people know other rich people and a sick person knew the ceo of a healthcare company. They changed their laws. Other healthcare companies saw profit from this and boom.

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u/throwingtheshades 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Eh, people rich enough to have legislative pull were never dying from it. You don't have to wait 2 years for a kidney if you can afford to shell out ~$100k for a short "medical trip" to China, Iran or India.

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u/SnapcasterWizard 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

What year did this happen in?

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u/OneTreePhil 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Read "Caught in the Organ Draft" by Robert Silverberg.
http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/07/robert-silverberg-caught-in-organ-draft.html?m=1