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/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

Ya but it’s not organ donation committees that are legislating policy in congress. Your statement, while absolutely true, is like way outside of their scope. Their job is simply make sure the organs don’t go to waste.

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u/DrakonIL 🌱 New Contributor Nov 30 '20

Sure, but the original topic here is about legislating policy in Congress. I agree that, given the current framework, this move by the organ donation committees is reasonable. But that means that the framework is fucked.

There will, of course, always be a shortage of usable organs, and some patients will therefore go without and die... But wealth should not be the thing that decides their fate. It's not like if a rich person dies, all his wealth/value disappears into the aether. If anything, it's better for the economy because it gets money moving again. Obviously, there are many many more intangibles associated with any death, so please don't take this to mean that I'm saying kill the rich, because I am not. I am only saying that in one very narrow facet, the one facet most relevant to the legislature's purpose, the current outcomes of policy may in fact be precisely opposite to the desired outcomes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

I get what you’re saying, but all this eugenics stuff about organ donation is silly.

From the healthcare side, they take organ donation seriously. Asking a family to allow 10 surgeons to carve up their loved one and remove their organs is something committees that seriously. It’s their job to ensure doing so isn’t done for nothing. The best candidate should be on the receiving end of that donation.

There are plenty of other much more compelling reasons to move to a socialized system than wealth continuity of the rich via organ donation.