Funny.
That's the classic argument for every trojan horse foisted on society by the anarchist-progressives to implement the Cloward-Piven national collapse.
Compassion for the benefit of unions, the indolent, the professional "poor" and the explosion of welfare by many other names.
There's a limit to everything.
It sounds so great, doesn't it. Spend more and more so there is no disease, no hunger, no deprivation of what would otherwise be called luxuries, but only for the idle, the unproductive, the quick to arson, mayhem and senseless destruction.
Nothing is too much, considering the alternative. A nationwide conflagration is unthinkable.
Until it isn't.
Common sense tells us an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Treating illnesses can get expensive quite fast; like the other poster noted, ERs are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
On the other hand, preventive care is what it means since you know how to keep a patient healthy.
The point you miss isn’t how much we should spend on health care; its where we should spend the money that does the most good.
Our health care system is set up in a way where people are treated after the fact and not before and it literally wastes money up the wazoo.
That’s not a classic argument for Cloward-Piven chaos; on the contrary, its an argument for considered choices and spending scarce money to the greatest benefit of society.
It should be a persuasive argument for utilizing doctors’ talents in a cost-effective and compassionate manner.