This. Every healthcare system in the world needs to choose. We simply cannot have healthcare for everything, including rare, expensive and/or hopeless diseases

This. Every healthcare system in the world needs to choose. We simply cannot have healthcare for everything, including rare, expensive and/or hopeless diseases (or all 3 at the same time). As long as that's what we demand, healthcare will go wrong. And let's please just stop pretending that this is somehow an America-only problem, caused by whatever (democrats: by not being public conservatives: by public largesse. And yes, despite how it sounds I do think both arguments have merit). True, America has it bad, but healthcare is failing, financially or otherwise everywhere in the developed world [1]. And healthcare in the non-developed world ... well, this was in the newspaper 2 days ago [2]. Healthcare is failing in the developed world for economic reasons. Those are not about to change, so it will get worse unless we figure this thing out with major changes (which ARE going to include limiting treatment). [1] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-health-care-systems-on-life-support-special-report-drug-pricing-medicines-public-services/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-health-care-systems-o... or more specific https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/16/nhs-cancels-thousands-of-operations-on-the-day-patients-association-study https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/16/nhs-cancels-... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-03/frances-health-care-system-is-going-broke https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-03/frances-h... and let's just not mention Spain or Greece's health care system. [2] http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.francais/Soci%25C3%25A9t%25C3%25A9/1.3151965 http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.francais/Soci%25C3%25A9t%2...