Comment by msandford

3 years ago

The other thing you can do is setup a trust for yourself so that you're broke on paper long before the trust runs out of money. I don't know if it's ethical but it's legal.

What's unethical is a system that completely drains a person's wealth for getting sick.

  • Certainly this happens for procedures that should be cheap, and nursing homes are also a huge issue. But in the current discussion it's not clear to me that something like a heart transplant should be cheap. Development of a novel treatment can be very expensive and sometimes involves scarce resources.

    • Heart transplant is free in countries with a tenth of USA GDP per Capita. And it's not a major cost in their health systems.

      American healthcare system is absurdly inefficient.

    • It can't be cheap, and in any high quality medical system apart from US thats not a concern for the patient, ever, at all.

      One of those cases where US individualism and utter lack of social thinking (completely unrelated to socialism/communism but many simpler folks fail to distinguish that) screws up needful parts of society