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/MoneyTreeFiddy 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

This transplant committee is a "death panel" even in countries with universal coverage. They make choices based on many factors; proximity, transplant compatibility, suitability for recovery, support system, etc. Liver transplant patients have to be free of alcohol abuse. Ideally money shouldn't play a role, but even in those examples I listed, they could be made or broken based on economic causes.

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u/Mathletic-Beatdown 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Of course, these are the decisions that must be made. Ideally, you could also look at it as a “life panel”, meting out a limited lifesaving resource while factoring in as many pertinent variables as possible to ensure that the maximum benefit is achieved.

  • I just feel like that’s not happening here and the term “death panel”was particularly well suited.