Surgery VS Ransom

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I will never understand how a wealthy nation can accept health inequality within its borders.

If we make all health care equal, then as a political decision we have to mandate what the limit of care is. We can't provide everything to everyone without limits. If everyone gets the same basic health care, where does innovation come from? Health care is going to be limited by the state or by economics either way can be seen as unfair. We're in the midst of a similar attempted leveling in American public education. National standards are taking the individual out of the picture much as national health care attempts to ignore individual difference. There is no perfect answer and right now Americas public/private health care hybrid manages to hit that sweet spot where nobody gets decent care.