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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ (nypost.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

But even if you made the insurance system completely non-profit, there’s no upper bound on how much you can spend on each individual. You’d still run into cases where you have to distribute a limited number of resources.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Most of the world can pull it off. Why not the US?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I’m not advocating for the US style of health insurance. I’m saying this specific case, if the medical commentators in this thread are to be trusted, may have ended up the same way in a non-profit model.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I think the point is that while your point is broadly true, in this specific scenario the treatment might not have been available anyway. Looking up on the named procedure, it seems likely most nations would have declined to offer this treatment, considering it futile in his situation.

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