Comment by janalsncm
1 year ago
In any system with a limited resource you will need some way to triage care and allocate it appropriately.
In a private system, those with money can prioritize themselves over those without it. In the US this results in huge numbers of people who lack basic care, and a small group of people who can pay large sums for care with diminishing returns. Consequently, Americans live shorter lives than Canadians.
What you are describing is a law that prevents a person from paying to skip other people in line. It seems like a pretty good idea to me.
we long ago figured out that queues, price caps, and shortages are a very bad system of delivering resources to people. i don’t understand the insistence that we do the same for the most life saving resources of all.
regardless, we have moved on to this argument because the original point is absolutely true: public systems intrinsically make it illegal to seek care out of the system.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10118619/bc-cancer-agency-wait-ti...