It has nothing to do with "first dibs". It does have something to do with the right to choose, including the rights of individuals outside the US. Socialism sees things as limited and sure, someone could have "dibs" since the healthcare was very limited
Well no baldar socialism has absolutely nothing to do with the inarguable linar time restriction under which the entire universe operates. There are only so many doctors, only so many operations that can be done.....normally that would that would mean first come first serve.....nothing socialistic about that, under these circumstances it would not become first come first serve unless you had the money. So indeed a non-American was given precidence over an American because the non-American had the money.
Dibs, precidence. Whatever.
Ahk
Wrong, wrong and whatever, still wrong.
First, the flawed logic.
1-How do you know it was "first dibs". You don't have detail and you don't know if there was, or wasn't a waiting list. Indeed, they might be meeting the demand of those patients who want the procedure (versus those who are seeking a different type of procedure). You don't, you assume it.
I don't think anyone was denied the procedure, so its not precedence, first dibs, it is not even "whatever" along those lines. The only place people would be denied those procedures would be, well, in Canada where that really good procedure was not deemed "cost effective" by the government (though you can politicize it, get the right groups in a position of power, and then have it declared an acceptable procedure, making medicine the purview of political parties, but then, you'd be dead by the time that happened.
Now understand this part. If people don't like being doctors, there will be less doctors. Just as the number of new doctors is falling in many places (especially France, except for the foreign doctors who receive accelerated visas in order to have more doctors in Europe, the recent car bomber in the UK was one of those). Less people want to be doctors, less doctors. Research doesn't pay off with any kind of monetary benefit, well, less people will do research too. Next thing you know, the neighboring country produces the research, has the doctors, can carry out the therapy and your government decides, through some bureaucratic office, that the therapy will not be available in your country.
