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Originally Posted by accord1999
Nobody is deliberating withholding healthcare, the Canadian and Provincial governments now collect over $700B in income and sales tax and spends over $300B of that on health care. But even that isn't enough for everything, the US spends even more and still isn't enough.
Ultimately health care, especially a single-pay system, is a rationing system that spends the money based on a ROI and population needs (and one that is getting older).
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Healthcare isn't, or at least shouldn't be, about a Return on Investment.
Healthcare is a need.
If you have a condition that requires attention to survive, cost, really, is irrelevant.
That's what should make the single payer system effective. You need emergency surgery? Done. We don't look at the dollars and cents. We don't say "it'd be more cost effective to do these three elective surgeries rather than this one life saving one".
I think medication should be the same. You're a father of two, who has been healthy and in shape for your entire life? Then at 36 get disagnosed with a disease that there's nothing you could have done to prevent, and the medication would bankrupt you and your family? Hold on... what's the return on investment for the taxpayer? Should we really cover this? I mean, where's the money coming from?
To circle back to the quoted post, is it delibrate? No, at least I hope not. Is it negligent? Yeah, especially if we, as a society, are talking about pharmacare and we're stopping to say "but what about the ROI?" and "but, but, but who's going to pay for this?"