Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
by Notre1 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:45AM
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I doubt that insurance paid for this procedure, so I don't think the single payer conversation is relevant. I'm assuming that given a similar regulatory environment, with single payer health care, that someone could choose to pay for such a unregulated procedure out-of-pocket.
I hope this is not too cynical, but I guess they even got a discount on making their two eyes in one run. This really sounds like a "two for the price of one" mentality.
More generally, this is one of the many examples where typical marked-oriented thinking utterly fails when non-financial risks are involved.
You need either high regulation without loopholes like those described here, or you need to pipe everything through a mandatory public health care system which would simply refuse to pay for non-evident treatments.
In most countries it is a combination of both.