Comment by whimsicalism
1 year ago
You can always pay out of pocket for healthcare. "Government death panels" are death panels because it is illegal to seek any other care/recourse
1 year ago
You can always pay out of pocket for healthcare. "Government death panels" are death panels because it is illegal to seek any other care/recourse
There is no such thing as "government death panels" under any proposed universal healthcare system.
Je suis Alfie Evans, Charlie Gard, Archie Battersbee.
There was no “death panel” involved with Archie Battersbee though. He had a Glasgow coma level of 3, the literal lowest (which is proportional to survival odds), and didn’t even have a pulse for over 40 minutes. He was most likely dead by the time his mother found him, and was certainly dead at the hospital. If memory serves his brainstem was even beginning to suffer from necrosis before they pulled treatment.
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I have heard proposals to allow the government to compete with private insurance on the free market (the public option/Medicare for all).
I have never heard a serious suggestion for the government to ban private insurance in the US.
Even in “communist” China where the government negotiates drug prices, people can buy private insurance.
Well it has already been implemented in Canada which is the country that most resembles us out of any
There was never any proposal for any system that bans people from paying for their own care :|
You’ve been duped.
if there is a cancer treatment that is covered by Canadian Medicare but the government chooses not to cover you for whatever reason (world is in triage, etc. etc.), you cannot pay out of pocket for that care.
Unfamiliar with Canadian healthcare but I can’t find anything to back that up. This link says you can buy private insurance to cover what isn’t covered by their public option: https://canadianvisa.org/blog/immigration/are-you-covered-ho...
If the services aren’t available to anyone due to resource issues that’s not the same as a death panel deciding you’re simply not worth covering. If there is a shortage, resources have to be allocated somehow whether or not there is a public option.
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You would also be free to travel to another country to pay for that care.
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