Pay

I don’t think I have to discuss the problem of asking patients who could afford an expensive treatment to pay for themselves, but letting the government to pay for those who do not have the money. Interested visitors may like to read http://ccszeto.blogspot.hk/2008/07/thermodynamics.html and related posts.

How about asking the government to pay for everyone, including those who are rich enough?

No, that would mean absolute communism – a road to serfdom.

Why? Because communism discriminates against the rich. Essentially the policy could be written in this way: If the government cannot afford a treatment and pay for the poor, the rich could not have it either.

There is, however, another indirect way of paying. 

I shall elaborate tomorrow.