[Moksha]

Originally Posted by prisonchaplain

If there is a treatment that can benefit or cure me, and I have the money to afford it, I should be able to get it. The impression we get in the U.S. is that many nationalized healthcare systems do limit and ration treatment, and that participation in the government scheme is mandatory. So, if the prescribed treatment doesn't work, well then your condition is too rare and expensive, and would be a burden on society to treat. So, you must manage as best you can with the people's medicine.

This is true with or without a health care system. The very rich can obtain the best health care money can buy, but priesthood anointings of the sick is the same for rich or poor. Both chaotic and systematized health care need to have cost controls built in.