[lovich]

It is however a highly inelastic good and some of the most expensive care happens when the person who ends up paying isn’t in the state of mind to make decisions such as being unconscious for emergency care, or late in life when dealing with dementia and other diseases that rob you of your faculties. It’s primed to be able to extract everything because most people value being alive above everything else.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the person who ends up paying isn’t in the state of mind to make decisions such as being unconscious for emergency care, or late in life when dealing with dementia and other diseases that rob you of your faculties

Most healthcare in America isn't paid for by the patient.

[lovich]

Ultimately, but it’s charged to the patient who then has it paid by whatever mechanism (insurance/medicare/medicaid/family/etc)