Surgery VS Ransom

[Aliantha]

The healthcare system for things like heart transplants etc are considered necessary surgeries and therefore are based on a needs must scenario. That is, the most urgent is first in the list, and the operating expenses and a large portion of all the medical bills associated with the surgery are covered by the state.

Other forms of surgery which are considered elective surgeries, that is, non life threatening proceedures, have much longer waiting lists if you're waiting on public funding however, if you have private health cover, you can schedule these surgeries in much shorter periods of time.

I think the system we have here could be better, but I believe it's one of the best out there, and frees people from the moral dilema of having to decide who should live and who should die.