Health Care - Part 1-5 Ensuring the freedom to determine your treatment plan in consultation with your doctor without undue restriction

5) Ensuring the freedom to determine your treatment plan in consultation with your doctor without undue restriction.
People are fulminating about “rationing” of health care. Listen up! If you have the money, health care is NEVER RATIONED! You can go anywhere and buy anything you want. You can get yourself a black market kidney and get a transplant. Just pay up. That will never change. If you don’t have that money, health care is ALWAYS RATIONED by what you can afford and what the insurance company is willing to pay. Check your policy, you have a lifetime limit on what the company will pay for your care and, trust me on this one, it can be exhausted pretty quickly with our outrageous medical costs and a series of serious chronic conditions. Just a transplant or two along with the care for life that follows is enough to max out many plans. Think that’s not likely? I personally know two people looking at transplant number two.

No system, public or private, pays for anything and everything for everyone under all conditions. You want “death panels?” You already got ‘em!

The real issue is that reasonable treatment that has a good chance of extending your life and/or improving the quality of your life should never be denied or delayed and the provision of that care should not depend on whether you are currently employed and have enough insurance and money.