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glass_superman t1_itis61p wrote

My heart surgery cost about 1000 African children.

Oh well, I guess is should've just died. My bad.

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Simple_Rules t1_itj022j wrote

Ironically, you actually make a better argument than the entire article linked - no offense intended.

We do spend absolutely bonkers amounts of money keeping individual people alive, and it is probably true that this is very inefficient on a global scale. But of course, it's much easier to poke at "luxuries" like coffee or vacations than it is to point out that the quality of medical care that some of us are lucky to have access to is so much better than the rest of the world that we might as well live on different planets.

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glass_superman t1_itjbzz7 wrote

To be fair, hospital pricing is kind of a game where the hospital says, for a completely fictional example, that fixing the valve in my heart costs 327k dollars. And then the insurance says, nah, we'll give you 20k. And the hospital says okay.

So really it cost 20k but the hospital inflated the cost so that, should I turn out to be a deadbeat, then can deduct 327k as a loss or charity or whatever.

Determining the actual cost of saving a life is difficult work.

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moon_then_mars t1_itmegzx wrote

No, it's your hard earned African children so you can choose how to spend them obviously.

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glass_superman t1_itn8dmp wrote

No I have exploited the global south in order to earn my wealth.

I'm going to give back the heart valve.

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