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I did not claim nobody's medical care was affected. It could have happened if it was uncommon and it could have happened if it is common. My claims: 1) most

• MaxBarraclough 1mo ago
  > I did not claim nobody's medical care was affected. You said the flight doesn't contribute to preventing harm to anyone. Interfering with medical care is a clear form of harm, that's why I focused on it. > it's not common to fly for medical care (yes, very rich people may have a different perception, but that's all it is) That's incorrect on both counts: it's common, and it's not just rich patients. Please take a look at the Medical tourism Wikipedia article I linked above. Cost-reduction is a major motivation of medical tourism. From [0] : > in 2016 nearly 144,000 UK citizens travelled abroad for medical treatment. The survey suggests a steady increase since 2000, even though the 2016 sample of 250,000 travellers represent 0.23% of the total number of travellers entering or leaving the UK. See also [1]. [0] https://doi.org/10.58248/PB38 https://doi.org/10.58248/PB38 Outward medical tourism (2020) [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3812100/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3812100/ Medical Tourism: A Cost or Benefit to the NHS? (2013)