COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[Dartz]

Triage is expected in any healthcare system. What's happening in Italy is what happens in any disaster where there're not enough medics to deal with the casualties. Some people are given the black tag because they can't be saved - so it would waste resources to try and save them. Never mind that Italy-contray to the reputation of the Italian Government - has one of the most capable medical systems in the world.

In the US, the same decision is made according to the ability to pay. Doesn't matter what your survival chances are - the doctors will keep you alive as long as you can continue to pay them. Or, as long as the death panel in your insurance company thinks its finacially viable to pay them. That seems a little bit wrong to me.

Never mind that it is widly believed - and can be inferred from genetic analysis of the Virus - that infection has been moving undetected in the US for weeks. The low quantity of detections is directly related to the low quantity of tests. It's like at Chernobyl where they reported 3.6 Roentgen per hour from an open reactor core - because the meter didn't go anyway higher.