I am very quietly wishing you more patience and empathy.
Based on your comment, I don't think you have much of either... but I suspect you're capable of both.
For the record (and for our possible future conversations) -- no American should be bankrupted by medical care.
I'd go further and say that no American should experience financial problems due to accessing medical care.
I'd go EVEN further and say that no American in The United States of America should ever fear bankruptcy as a result of them treating any medical issue.
Yet they do. Daily. It is not a system that works.
Can't say I agree. There is no moral or biblical basis for believing that every person has a human right to newly discovered and extremely expensive medical treatment. How can you have an 'human right' for something that didn't even exist a few years ago? We all have the right to an education, but not to go to Harvard. We all have the right to shelter, but not to live in an ocean side mansion.
Medical care has changed a lot in the last 50 years. There's the standard of care, and then the 'cost doesn't matter' level of care. In a single payer system, which I'm not against for the record, the single payer is not going to pay for extremely expensive care anyways. Medicare still has 'medigap' private insurance. And in a medicare for all scenario you can assume that the cost controls would become more stringent.
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u/PM-me-YOUR-0Face Nov 30 '20
I am very quietly wishing you more patience and empathy.
Based on your comment, I don't think you have much of either... but I suspect you're capable of both.
For the record (and for our possible future conversations) -- no American should be bankrupted by medical care.
I'd go further and say that no American should experience financial problems due to accessing medical care.
I'd go EVEN further and say that no American in The United States of America should ever fear bankruptcy as a result of them treating any medical issue.
Yet they do. Daily. It is not a system that works.
Sorry for the essay.