it should be obvious that no amount of money can ever make it so that your life is worth more than my life, that you should get cutting-edge treatment while I die from lack of insulin.
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But then the counterargument from the rich is that the wealth they invest into their treatment essentially subsidizes innovation that, down the line, benefits all of us. It's trickle-down healthcare.
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I would like to see this argument taken seriously. I think it relies on an intuitive causation being drawn between the fact that America has extraordinarily high healthcare costs and the fact that a lot of medical innovation comes out of America.
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I know premise 1 (high cost) is true. I believe, but am not certain, that premise 2 is true (high innovation). I am wholly uncertain/a little skeptical that the conclusion (premise 1 has a causal relationship to premise 2) is accurate.
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But, even should it turn out to be true that the wealthy subsidize medical innovation, surely we can agree that we can equalize healthcare access (or at least eliminate these GROSS disparities) and find other ways to increase investment?
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