consulting the enemy! americas shameful neglect of its poor hits an all time low happy commercial shopping season people oh i meant christmas
Iran is an interesting case study in medicine. Slightly off-topic, the US has massive waiting lists for kidney transplants, and every year many people die while waiting (not to mention how much money is spent with people just stuck in hospitals during long waits). According to the National Kidney Foundation, one person dies every 2 hours waiting for a kidney. The US has a strict and understandable policy making it illegal to sell organs. Iran, on the other hand, went the other way. They don't allow a private market in human organs, but the government pays live donors willing to donate one of their functional kidneys. As a result, within about a year, they eliminated a 15,000+ people waiting list for kidney transplants and now are able to immediately conduct any and all needed kidney transplants. It presents an interesting moral question. If it can be adequately regulated and controlled, does organ donation for money make sense? Do we want to open that Pandora's box? On one hand, who knows what kind of other problems it causes. On the other hand, 80,000+ people currently on waiting lists in the US (and potentially 300,000 more on dialysis) could basically immediately get transplants and get out of the hospital or off dialysis and lead healthy lives. The long-term cost savings could be enormous, and you'd have 80,000+ healthy people. Here's an interesting article about it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2322914/
Even Bibi supports universal healthcare. But reading that reminds me of why even non-religious Iranians supported the revolution.
