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That's one reason why privatised health is rubbish. "profitable" treatments should be used, in part, to subsidise the cost of unprofitable ones.
by Incipient 7mo ago
That's one reason why privatised health is rubbish. "profitable" treatments should be used, in part, to subsidise the cost of unprofitable ones.
- Aurornis 7mo agoNo medical system, public or private, has infinite money. There will always be decisions made about which conditions get research and which don't. It's unlikely that a disease this rare would be prioritized by a purely government run system, either. There are too many more common diseases to address first.
- Incipient 7mo agoI mean sure, nothing has infinite money...but better to redirect some profits to other treatments, than to extract them all for shareholders?
- AdamN 7mo agoIt's a little bit the opposite. Private groups are focused on profits but there are gov programs to support the rare disease research that would otherwise go unfunded in a pure market system.
- renewiltord 7mo ago[flagged]
- sokka_h2otribe 7mo agoUhh, you know you could skip the vaccine and just call it a tax..
- renewiltord 7mo agoThat wouldn't guarantee subsidization of expensive treatments by cheap ones and therefore is fascist.