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I'm truly sorry to hear about your health issues and the lack of resources available to you. Of course I would like to see better healthcare available to every
by spking 7y ago
I'm truly sorry to hear about your health issues and the lack of resources available to you.
Of course I would like to see better healthcare available to everyone as well. Can't we focus our attention on making healthcare (even specialized treatments like yours) more accessible and affordable, instead of artificially propping up a massively wasteful industry in perpetuity?
- ummonk 7y agoHow would we make specialized healthcare more locally accessible? By flying specialist doctors and equipment in from the coasts when needed?
- komali2 7y agoMany solutions here: 1. Accept that a tiny portion of our population has extremely rare diseases (true by definition of rare disease lol), and that some portion of our socialized healthcare system involves flying the doctors to this population, or vice versa 2. Dump funding into telehealth solutions, including robotics.
- munk-a 7y agoI think you pretty much don't - but what you can do is shift the burden of healthcare off of an employment expense so that when someone is in this terrible situation they can move to a location where they can receive better care without being concerned that they will be unable to continue receiving insurance from their employer. The poster above is between a rock and a hard place, it's a really terrible situation to be in no matter what safety nets are in place. But the US tends to go out of its way to make things just that little extra bit terrible.