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How is it more rational to say that everyone needs an education, so we'll provide public schools, but health care is a commodity that should be determined by how much one is willing to pay for service?
There's virtually no upper limit to the amount (and cost) of life-prolonging medical care people need before they finally die. Public Ed is not quite as potentially limitless as keeping people alive is.
The difference being the hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt left behind because he got sick. In an emergency room everyone will get treatment, the problem is the cost of the treatment. Even if you break $400,000 into monthly payments of $1,000 it would take 400 months (33 years) to pay it off.
Care that expensive shouldn't be happening as often as it is. Period.
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