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There's absolutely no difference amongst the different kinds of things people can die from, especially ones that are easy to fix and ones that we can't do anything about.

Hey, we actually came back to the point, kinda! There's a lot of things you can die from that fall in between "easy to fix" and "can't do anything about it". Where you draw the "fuck it, people die" line is hugely variable between different people, and it's not something you'll find a shred of consensus on across the 300,000,000 people in the USA. It's better for people to negotiate coverage with individual hospitals (and voluntary charities) than to have standards of care dictated by a central authority.



apparently it's provably not since countries with a strong centrally controlled health care system seem to be providing superior health care vs systems that let people do what you propose




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