Health Insurance Forum

Should health insurance and health care be rationed?

by admin on 05/08/09 at 3:29 pm

Say a stranger was diagnosed with terminal cancer and your insurance carrier provides him along with everyone else in your health insurance fund an expensive drug that will possibly extend his life another six months. Your insurance premiums will inevitably increase. The six additional months are not promised with this drug and no one can say if it will improve his quality of life. Do you still think the drug is worth it? What if the treatment cost millions of dollars? Is there a limit to how much you would want to pay for a drug that could add six months to a stranger’s life? Is there any point in which you say that it is not worth it? Should health care be rationed?