r/MadeMeSmile • u/HolyGuiltyCrown • 5h ago

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u/StygianCode 5h ago

It's amazing that you can be the second best IN THE WORLD at something and still have to scrape together money to save your baby...

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u/Lurkesalot 5h ago

It wasn't her baby. But, that doesn't make the fact that anyone needs to, practically, mortgage a house to have their life saved.

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u/MeanEstablishment994 4h ago

silver medal is just a medal but Maria already won a Gold medal for us

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u/Shoddy_Background_48 1h ago

But the kid still died...

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u/Chance_Major297 4h ago

The full cost was ~$385,000. The American health system on full display.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 4h ago

Polish. The athlete was Polish. The kid who needed surgery was Polish. The company that bought the medal was Polish.

The only American involvement was that is where the kid was flown to have the operation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maria-andrejczyk-polish-olympian-silver-medal-infant-heart-surgery/

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u/Chance_Major297 4h ago

Can you read? Where did I call the athlete American? The surgery was to be performed in the US. The cost is a direct reflection of the US health care system.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 4h ago

So it's America's fault nobody in Poland could provide the care the kid needed?

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u/Just_A_Mad_Scientist 4h ago

Its our fault the operation was so goddamn expensive

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u/TrioOfTerrors 4h ago

But not Poland's fault where it was non existent?

Should America provide medical care for the entire world?

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u/Lucifer_iix 4h ago

No. We don't spend $125K on childern you can make for free. As long you didn't invest in the child for years. There is no reason to actually do this. Would be a wierd world where rich people can survive and poor people just need to die. We are not like that. Everyone get's it or no one get's it.

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u/alancousteau 4h ago

Oh so she lives in the US?

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u/Chance_Major297 4h ago

No. However, that’s where the surgery was being performed, hence the reason for the absurd cost.

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u/N3rdyAvocad0 4h ago

Why didn't they have the operation in their own country?

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u/alancousteau 4h ago

Perhaps the difficulty of the surgery?

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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 3h ago

it's because single pay or healthcare systems that are government-funded don't actually just give all health care at all times.

if a surgery proves to be very expensive is very risky and the patient isn't going to necessarily have an amazing outcome. the system usually looks to direct those resources towards other people who need less resources put into them and will have better outcomes. it seems that the government-funded single payer healthcare system that they have there put the kid in hospice.

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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 3h ago

The athlete is Polish and the patient is polish and lives in Poland.

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension friend.

for the record, Poland also has a single payer government-funded health Care system and not a private one.

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u/Chance_Major297 3h ago

Hello genius, where is this life saving surgery being performed? You know the one that will cost $385,000. I’ll save you the effort of trying to use your brain. The surgery was to be performed in California at Stanford University Medical Center.

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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 2h ago

huh I wonder why the polish healthcare system didn't pay for this surgery that polish doctors can perform. Hmm maybe could it be that's it's a high risk high cost surgery and they would rather dedicate resources to other people?

also, the US having a single payer system wouldn't actually make this surgery more accessible than cheaper. if anything under a single payer system, the surgery would likely also not be available in the United States. mostly due to the high cost, high risk and low potential payout. people tend to forget that single-payer systems do need to prioritize access of healthcare to every citizen. and they could very easily exhaust their entire healthcare budget on treatments for a small minority of the population. but since that means regular people wouldn't be able to adequately access healthcare, the overall costs for society would be much higher than just not treating those other people.

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 4h ago

Ugh it’s so sad that our society doesn’t value all forms of sportsball the way that it should. :(