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No one wants to believe this. But it is absolutely true: there is no healthcare system that can save everyone forever. The growing assortment of treatments to
by voakbasda 3y ago
No one wants to believe this. But it is absolutely true: there is no healthcare system that can save everyone forever.
The growing assortment of treatments to combat issues that arise naturally through aging gave rise to the expectation that we can live longer. Technically, that’s true, but the collective cost of care starts to go exponential. At some point, we must acknowledge that we will go bankrupt trying to save everyone.
I wish there was a way for people to check out before they become such a burden on society. Until then, we had better make peace with the reality that “death panels” are choosing for us, because we as a civilization can’t afford for everyone to live their longest possible life.
- MattRix 3y agoI see no logical reason for this to be true, certainly not in any absolute sense.
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- pessimizer 3y agoYou can't see that a situation will come up, every day, where you have to make a choice between spending millions to keep someone alive for another year, or spending those millions on cheaper and more effective interventions for 100 children? Here's the logic. Budgeting doesn't suddenly disappear and resources don't suddenly become infinite when healthcare moves from insurance companies to government. People who bash the NHS as a concept are people who prefer insurers to budget their healthcare instead of civil servants. Insurers are also death panels.
- ChoHag 3y ago[dead]