Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a...
by trophycase on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:23PM
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> We have to bear the cost of accepting that lives are not worth infinite, and that its not okay to spend irrationally to save one.
This is a key point and one I see a lot of people lose track of in these debates. Nobody is entitled to have millions and millions spent on keeping them alive, and this is one of the key moral hazards of public healthcare (though one we mostly bear the cost of already with Medicare).
This is a key point and one I see a lot of people lose track of in these debates. Nobody is entitled to have millions and millions spent on keeping them alive, and this is one of the key moral hazards of public healthcare (though one we mostly bear the cost of already with Medicare).