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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP your story is very moving.  A sick child is a heartbreaking situation.  No one wants a child to suffer, and I wish your child the best possible outcome.

There are several questions that need to be answered with this example:

1.  If healthcare is an entitlement, are we entitled to have any and all treatment that we want?  There is a difference between giving any and all treatment and alleviating suffering.

2.  Resources ARE limited, even with pooled resources from taxes. Resources are limited by merely the number of hospital beds available, the time and appointment slots for specialists and other providers, the amount of money for equipment, facilities, and medication.  Who decides the cost/benefit of treatment? Who decides who gets priority treatment?

As an aside, the portable care act, passed years ago, insures patients will not be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions if continuous coverage is maintained.  It is very important that consumers are aware of their rights and obligations in using and maintaining health insurance.

I think people imagine that Medicare for all means you will get any treatment that you desire at any time.  That is not what it means.  In fact, Medicare for all will have a strict formulary, strict requirements for qualifying for certain treatments, strict requirements for accessing specialty care, and cost/benefit analysis driven care.  OP, your daughter would likely benefit from such a plan, but there will be other patients who would be losers.

OP, understandably, you want the best for your daughter, but a planning a comprehensive healthcare strategy can’t be accomplished through an emotional lense.  FWIW, I am republican who wants some form of high deductible universal catastrophic coverage for all and a separate government pool for high risk coverage, for patients like your daughter.  I also think insurance should be uncoupled from employment for greater coverage security.

Obamacare was very ambitious and got some things right, but it also is very flawed.  It is flawed in it’s cost shifting.  It is flawed in it’s failure to control costs.  So, as part of a community, OP, I want your daughter to have care.  However, I do not believe Obamacare achieves care equity or is the best use of our community resources.[/quote]

You’re right, in a Medicare for all system care is rationed.  That means a dr determines the amount you get.

Pretty sure all the populations with universal healthcare and healthier populations are managing Better than us. [/quote]

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