Canadians are outliving Americans with Cystic Fibrosis, in some cases, by as much as a decade

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VGPolyglot said:

sc94597 said:

It is not, the poor qualify for Medicaid already. Since healthcare is scarce (there are a limited number of doctors, drugs, hospitals) we can't give top of the lime care to everyone. There has to be some mechanism to deal with scarcity.

And that's by saying too bad, so sad to poorer people?

Absolutely not, medicaid works quite fine in providing poor people with basic care at no cost. I grew up on it. Besides a little extra work finding doctors who accepted it, it works fine, in fact often better than the care provided in other systems, because we can focus on the poor and not give subsidies to the middle class. In the United States people with medicaid can get dental work, and eye care whilst these cost extra in other countries.