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The mere premise of needing healthcare as an "if" is itself flawed.
If my clinical experience amounts for anything here, needing healthcare is a matter of when, not a matter of if.
Everyone here, everyone reading this even me, will guaranteed need healthcare at some point in their life. It is an eventuality. Some people are probably far too ignorant or in denial to realize this. The sad iront is that those who do probably cannot even afford it.
Thus it should be an inalienable right even if you have to force people to have the foresight to be prepared for it. The mere fact that this right is given almost entirely to the command of the private sector more concerned with the health of their bank accounts is an atrocity.
If that means one less patient who goes into cardiac arrest while we figure out how to treat and diagnose, well, I would be ecstatic.
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