[extropy-chat] Who Gets Expensive Treatments Under Socialism? (was Cryonics is the only option?)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On 4/15/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

Unless you're in America,
> > where, i assume, you die if you can't afford whatever life-saving
> > treatment you need (is this correct?).

### Absolutely incorrect. The US governments spend more per person on
healthcare for the uninsured than most European systems spend on the
insured there, so (unfortunately, in my opinion) everybody here gets
expensive treatments, whether life-saving or not.

Rafal

PS. Too little time to go back to some of the threads I was involved
in a few weeks ago but I'll try to find some time to answer ppl's
questions.