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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by zip1234 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:23PM (#31182024)
The counterpoint is that you have the exact same decisions being made in systems like the UK. People get refused cancer treatment because they were too old and their were younger patients that had a better prognosis. The fact is both types of systems don't have unlimited resources.
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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by slantedview on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:30PM (#31182131)
Yes, care rationing is a thing. But in the UK care is rationed due to capacity constraints whereas in the US it's rationed in order to make a profit. These are very, very different things. It means that people's welfare, and death, is being traded for profit.
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