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No. Do all that. (Maybe). Still resources are limited. Still if you had another $x billion you could save more lives. Still you have to weigh stuff like the cos
by harry8 7y ago
No. Do all that. (Maybe). Still resources are limited. Still if you had another $x billion you could save more lives. Still you have to weigh stuff like the cost of a hip replacement saving pain for old people against a long shot treatment for a terminally ill child. You can always do more. Someone has to miss out. Who? Why?
There's no way around it.
There can't be.
- moksly 7y agoExcept there was a way around it until medicine became so expensive that nation states stopped being able to afford it. There will always be a debate on priorities, but it’s gone from being about how long certain things could wait, to, who doesn’t get treatment at all. The triage example of earlier is excellent, because war time is a time of scarce resources, and that’s the state we’re at. Not because the resources are actually scares, but because an immoral industry got way too greedy.