SkyNightZ t1_jamgxul wrote
Reply to comment by lllNico in Jay Leno looks great considering he had third degree burns all over his face by hopper75
Not all treatments are affordable though.
It's a pipe dream.
A benefit of a private public split is it allows private clinics to spend loads of money on relatively new technology and overtime demonstrate and prove efficacy as well as allow the initial R&D costs to be absorbed by them.
Then once the treatments are affordable they can drop down into the public system.
To say everything must be public immediately ignores the obvious reality that the governments pockets are not infinitely deep and when there is no profit incentive some things just won't get researched.
Take skin grafting as an example. It's cosmetic surgery at the end of the day. A government isn't going to invest in getting people trained for such a procedure.
But private will because people would pay to look 'normal'.
Now that the people are trained on skin grafting and the technology is common, public healthcare gets to take advantage.
You would hurt the overall level of care by being driven by an end goal of wanting everything to be available to everyone.
Sure, can be done but compared to before there would be less procedures possible.
lllNico t1_jams234 wrote
oh you sweet child, sure they are spending the profits on new treatments, sure they are... ;)
SkyNightZ t1_jamyzny wrote
In a private only model sure, it sucks.
but everywhere with public and private that is literally how it works.
Don't "sweet child" me when you clearly have no idea how the system works.
lllNico t1_jamztc5 wrote
it doesnt work like that tho
SkyNightZ t1_janculh wrote
It literally does. Like your pulling this out of thin air.
Guess which one of us works in the pharmaceutical research business and who doesn't.
The government can afford some research, but it wants to see maximum patient impact.
That means diseases that effect a small percentage of the population get less funding.
However to private investors those diseases can be incredibly lucrative.
So private funds research in those areas more than public. Then overtime (because most of these ventures go nowhere) the successful treatments make their way to the top and get more development.
This is early stage vs late stage research.
The government is more willing to help fund late stage research because its more viable. But without the early stage research there is no late stage.
I've simplified the process but if you did the most basic level of research you would see what I'm saying is true.
What you have is an IDEA, and you are hoping against reality that your idea is true. It simply isn't.
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