Your tax dollars is going to help this man

[Soleron]

HappySqurriel said:

Soleron said:

Increase the coverage of national healthcare until this inmate's treatment is normal. Like the UK's NHS ("socialised medicine").

Realistically, what portion of health services around the world cover treatments like this?

I'm fairly certain that very few people in the United States would have health insurance that covers a treatment like this, and I'm positive that us Canadians would be unable to access care like this; and, while I could be wrong, I suspect that any country that provided care for everyone that covers such extreme cases would rapidly bankrupt the country.

I think it might be just us that fund 100% of the treatment. Even France needs a contribution.

However such operations would have to come from the economy somehow, whether from the consumer or government as an emergency case, so I don't see how the government covering it is much worse. You just need vastly higher taxes. The upside is that universal coverage means everyone gets the treatment when they need it to a reasonable standard which means the working population is healthly enough to pay tax. Unlike the US where a series of bare-minimum operations will keep someone alive but not able to work.