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Does an actual doctor believe that too?
We don't have infinite resources to spend on treatment that won't actually help.
This is a slop article. No actual info on success chances, prior treatments etc.
OH SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR "FINITE" RESOURCES BULLSHIT. The DOCTOR recommended the treatment. The only barrier to having more time with their loved one wasn't knowledge, or skill, or reSoUCEes... It was money, a FAKE thing WE invented. You know what IS a finite resource FUCKING TIME. Our priorities as a society are so absolutely bonkers. We could have given that family more of an actual unrenewable gift that can never be replaced, restored, or generated and instead we STOLE that from them to give more of an invented thing of fictious value to the elites. Elites that have so much of it already they could never conceivable spend it.
Counter-theory: nothing got stolen, the insurance already paid a million for other treatments buying him a lot of time, but in the end the cancer won.
Now we don't know any of that because the article is slop and doesn't tell us anything that wouldn't fit the sob-story narrative.
Whose money? Insurance is paid by a pool of people. That makes it a community resource and when a community members gets sick that resource should be allocated to taking care of them. People don't pay insurance thinking "Gee I sure hope when I need coverage they deny me and direct my funds to the fatheads at the top of my insurance company."
And the article being true/false/slop is irrelevant. Most Americans have experience with this fucked up system of ours that's why it resonates.
No matter how much you scream, it will still be true. You can't yell and curse it away.
Money is finite, even if we made it up. Everyone can't have everything.
Your argument rests upon the inaccurate assumption that because things are what they are, that it is inevitable that they will stay the same.
Amazing how a supposedly finite resource can be printed on a whim at the convenience of specific class of people.
So there is no reason, why all 300 million people in America shouldn't get this treatment right now, in case they have cancer? All at once preferably.
If a DOCTOR (key word) diagnosis you with cancer, then YES. Otherwise, no your time would be better spent doing something else. May I suggest a hobby? Perhaps building strawmen?
Ngl, the strawman joke was pretty funny.
You're missing the point; everyone can have health care.
The very beginning the article:
It still sounds like this was an experimental treatment. It was brought to the doctor by the patient's wife. So we don't know all the specifics of how likely it would have been to help.
Even so, these kinds of experimental treatments are often paid for by the companies that provide them. There's still a process they go through to get a "compassionate use" case approved, because they don't have the resources to provide it to everyone who asks. I wonder if they were denied for this, if they never applied for it, or if this particular company just doesn't offer it.
I'm not saying that US healthcare isn't fucked or anything. Just that the situation has more nuance than the headline suggests.
Edit: sorry, should have realized when I saw the same headline on reddit that this was a reddit thread.
The treatment definitely would have worked, and if we didn't have health insurance companies then cancer would literally never kill anyone, because we'd just keep trying experimental treatments until everyone lived forever.
I hope for your sake that boot polish isn't a carcinogen when ingested orally.
You're just trolling? Or your reading comprehension needs a lot of work? Or maybe you're some kind of paranoid, living the loneliest life, because all you see are bootlickers everywhere. I genuinely don't know which one it is.
How do you think they would get treatment if no doctor believes it would help?