> Sadly, the Chinese government has less incentive to let the poor survive. It’s a cold, heartless form of population control. [...] I have some friends who li

> Sadly, the Chinese government has less incentive to let the poor survive. It’s a cold, heartless form of population control. [...] I have some friends who lived in Canada for a while. They said the Canadian medical system doesn't go all-out to treat people with cancer, which is probably just as well. Someone I knew (United States) just passed away from cancer. She spent 3 years getting treated, then died after a single day on hospice care. Medicare paid in full, I'm sure: that final operation was not a success, but the doctors were paid anyways. Everyone dies eventually. American doctors are trained to try all the interventions they can possibly think of in a futile effort to prevent the inevitable. If my grandparents would have had to pay for their final months of interventions themselves, they certainly would have chosen to leave the funds in their estate. But since Medicare was paying they begrudgingly went along for the ride.