A person is dying from a disease that is curable with medication. The only problem is that said medication is very expensive.
What would be the highest amount of money that could be spent to save one person, assuming the cure works 100% of the time and death is certain without it. Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? A million? Would ten million be too much? I'm talking on a euro/dollar/pound scale.
At what point are you willing to tell the patient "sorry, we can't save you because it'd cost too much money to the state/insurance/whatever"? Would that change if the patient is a child? (for the sake of staying on topic, assume the patient is of same ethnicity as you).
I'd be interested to hear your answers. I'll post mine after I'm back from the cafeteria.
What would be the highest amount of money that could be spent to save one person, assuming the cure works 100% of the time and death is certain without it. Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? A million? Would ten million be too much? I'm talking on a euro/dollar/pound scale.
At what point are you willing to tell the patient "sorry, we can't save you because it'd cost too much money to the state/insurance/whatever"? Would that change if the patient is a child? (for the sake of staying on topic, assume the patient is of same ethnicity as you).
I'd be interested to hear your answers. I'll post mine after I'm back from the cafeteria.
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My brief answer is there is no limit.
My extended answer is I would pass legislation to make such manipulative monopolies illegal and force the corporation who developed the cure to provide at comparative price margin compared to the limited cures of other ailments which should already be organized at reasonably afford level to the consumer.
Punishment for not complying with such ordinance would be the forceful (after lengthy and repeated attempts to work with said corporation) seizure and public distribution of such material in the name of humanitarian aid.
