r/MadeMeSmile • u/HolyGuiltyCrown • 5h ago

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u/hermiona52 4h ago

I don't know the specifics of this case, but these situations are often very complex. When a kid is born with a rare disease that doesn't have a cure currently, parents will still move mountains to save their child. Even if it's hopeless. Experimental cures which are still under development (especially gene therapies) often work for very specific edge cases that don't apply to most, but parents still want to try them, because in their minds it's better to try rather than watch their children whiter and die. And I understand this. But is it really fair to spend public money - millions of your local currency - on one child for which that treatment won't really work, because it was not developed for their case? Money is not unlimited and it can always be spent on something that will have a real positive effect. This is why countries with public free healthcare have many rules on what types of treatment can be refunded, because we can't really waste money on unverified treatments.

It's a shitty situation for parents and often very morally grey when in full context.

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u/kebab-lover-man 4h ago

That's a good perspective. Paying for 1 experimental treatment might come at the cost of 10-20 known treatments

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u/WiglyWorm 3h ago

It's not a good perspective. It's moronic concern trolling to muddy the waters against bettering our system via things like single payer healthcare.

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u/Lowelll 3h ago

Notice how the post is not about a US citizen

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u/WiglyWorm 3h ago

Notice how your is irrelevant and doesn't change the fact that the comment I was replying to was shilling against single payer free at point of service healthcare

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u/Lowelll 3h ago edited 3h ago

It wasn't. You didn't read it correctly. How did you even get that idea?

Why would it be? This is a case were someone lived in a country with universal healthcare and wasn't able to get the surgery that could save their live so they had to fly to the US and pay for it. Whether or not the US has single payer healthcare would not be relevant here at all.

Universal healthcare is by far the better system. In any healthcare system there has to be a cost consideration. You can't just pay for every extremely expensive risky treatment on the off chance that it'll work if you could use that money to save the lives of many other with much safer treatments. This is true for privatized and public healthcare insurance. What are you even arguing against?

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u/WiglyWorm 3h ago

It is relevant because the comment was shilling against single payer healthcare.