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As typically understood, rationing is allowing each person to have a fixed amount of something no matter what. In the USA, if you want more healthcare, you have
by jquery 9y ago
As typically understood, rationing is allowing each person to have a fixed amount of something no matter what. In the USA, if you want more healthcare, you have many options to increase your consumption. If you want to redefine rationing as anything that isn't yet post-scarcity, sure we have rationing.
Aside: Poor people do get health care in the USA. My brother was unemployed and received over $1 million in healthcare for his son with cancer, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in care for his dialysis treatment and eventual kidney transplant.
- Retric 9y ago1 million in heathcare is still rationing. If say bill gates kid had cancer they would likely spend more money on care in the same situation. But, as you say until we are post scarcity there is going to be cost benifit analysis. All I am saying is our current system is inefficient, I don't expect we are going to transition before the next revolution. PS: A lot of government money ends up going to healthcare independent of patient care. Ex: HRSA Grants for Rural Heath systems add up to ~16 billion and are not counted as Medicare Medicare etc https://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/ https://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/