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I'm genuinely curious, what countries work this way? I've never heard of it, every system has some form of rationing as far as I know.

• maronato 2y ago
  In Brazil, where I’m from, insurance companies can’t just deny medically proven treatments to covered conditions because they are expensive. For example, my father in-law had prostate cancer. His health insurance covers prostate cancer, so the doctor was able to prescribe any medically proven treatment he had access to. The first treatment they tried was the one with highest percentage of success, and then changed it to other treatments depending on how the cancer responded. Cost was never brought up, and they never heard complaints from the insurance company. Lots of insurances accessible to middle class families also cover in-testing treatments that have shown success in other countries, if the patient matches conditions for the trial and other approved treatments didn’t work.