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Originally Posted by EonBlue
Well, we can pay extra for private rooms (if any are available) and things like that but we can't pay directly for medical or diagnostic procedures.
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Isn't that a good thing, though?
If you could pay extra for better treatment, it would take little time for a high-priced, alternative healthcare circuit to arise. With higher prices, it could afford to offer better pay to doctors, thus draining disproportionately many well-trained and talented doctors from the public system. Basically, the quality of public healthcare would decrease, even though the quality of private healthcare might rise to levels public healthcare could never achieve. In other words, the child of poor parents would get significantly worse healthcare than the child of rich parents would.