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To: grania
I'd like to see first-aid clinics where people who can't afford or don't want to pay more get basic care.

Define "basic care".

Wouldn't it be wonderful if people had to pay out of their own pocket if they decided an expensive medical choice is worth the money?

If they have the money. Kind of sucks for them if they can't pay for their cancer treatment.

60 posted on 03/07/2017 11:48:48 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
It's a vicious circle, as it is now. If people couldn't pay for their cancer care, cheaper solutions would be found. There'd be more insistence to find what causes cancer. Besides that, there'd be incentive to find real cures, not just pharmaceuticals that have to be paid for as long as people are alive. What we have now is not sustainable.

I remember a discussion in a college Philosophy class back in the 1960s. It was about the ethics of developing cures for diseases that not everyone could afford.

62 posted on 03/07/2017 1:17:13 PM PST by grania
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