The limit is approximately what you would be capable of paying. Putting value on life is a common practice, particularly in single-payer healthcare, mostly rele

The limit is approximately what you would be capable of paying. Putting value on life is a common practice, particularly in single-payer healthcare, mostly relevant to certain drugs. There are, of course, problems with a system like this. "I would pay literally everything to not die, but can't find treatment" is just not one (assuming certain values of everything), because people will take your money. Problems are things like rich people getting better treatment (happens just about no matter what, but we'd rather pretend otherwise), and evaluating treatment performance as a customer/patient (a reason for most supply restrictions.)