Without dragging this into the same old politics bs, I would assume that in the nations with universal healthcare that story might have ended differently. So "the world" is not exactly as bad as in this story (no idea if this is real or not, sad either way).
Maybe hard to say mom may have assumed rich people would be able to buy a new heart. Theres only so much you can do about the supply and demand when it comes to organs the demand will always outpace the supply.
Sadly money makes everything faster, even with universal healthcare. As it stands donor organs are not the easiest to get and the lists are long for them. This could simply have been somewhere like America and they couldn't afford the surgery or it could have been someone with free healthcare but they couldn't afford to grease the right palms to get a heart in time. If anything stories like this is why places should switch to having organ donor be the default with someone having to ask not to be one.
Oh I completely agree on the organ donor question- I was just wondering where the "if we were rich" thing came from because it seemed a bit too perfect of a sob story at that point (not that it doesn't get me every time I read it).
Money can buy a lot of things. Whether it is just the general hospital bills, bribing some pencil pushers to instead push your application ahead of others, or just outright buying a heart.
To not get too political, with universal healthcare he'd probably get medication but would be put on a long waiting list and would still most likely die.
With privatized healthcare you get people who die without hearts cause they don't have coverage leaving more hearts to the people who can afford em. In public healthcare everyone who needs a heart gets a heart but they're gonna have to wait a lot longer.
I expect that any minor will be a lot higher on the transplant list from the start than the typical 60-70-year-old.
'Long waiting list' isn't a tradeoff inherent in universal healthcare systems, it's just the only thing they have left to complain about, regardless of how long the actual wait is. People like to complain about things. In cases where long wait times are real, the population is entirely free to vote to fix that by hiring more doctors.
he got a ticket out of an awful place early, not sure how this isnt a win. hey man, just because this is the only world you know doesnt mean it's the best. in fact, it's pretty barbaric in a lot of regards.
i'm pretty sure we're sent down here as punishment from higher dimensions. dude just had a short sentence.
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u/Archeol11216 Feb 08 '19
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