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> In the USA, he or his family would likely have demanded aggressive surgery and/or chemo or radiation In the US, if you can't afford it, medical care basicall
by silicon2401 4y ago
> In the USA, he or his family would likely have demanded aggressive surgery and/or chemo or radiation
In the US, if you can't afford it, medical care basically isn't even an option. If you have a lot of money, then you're set. In Europe if you don't have much money, you at least have some options, and if you have a lot of money, you can still go to the US. Or if you're open to $100k's of debt, you could've easily gone to the US for treatment, too. Your scenario just proves my point that the situation is way better in europe
- SoftTalker 4y agoWell, I'm saying that he had no options. He went to a (very nice) facility to die. They kept him comfortable and relatively pain-free. Any other option he had, should he have wished to pursue it, would have been outside of the Danish social medical system. That may be "better" than what would have happened in the USA under Medicare/Medicaid, but my point was there really wasn't a choice in the matter for him. He didn't have to pay for it, other than the taxes he paid his whole life, so I guess there's that.
- silicon2401 4y ago> Well, I'm saying that he had no options. He went to a (very nice) facility to die. They kept him comfortable and relatively pain-free I'm just saying that's an option that he took. Just because it wasn't ideal, doesn't mean it wasn't something. If he was in the US, that wouldn't have been an option in the first place. Still a massive improvement over the US.