When access to care depends on predicted usefulness, medicine stops healing and starts calculating who is worth saving. “Value” isn’t objective—it mirrors inequality, quietly sidelining the poor, disabled, and elderly while pretending to be efficient.
A system that only treats those who can repay society isn’t pragmatic; it’s morally bankrupt. Healthcare exists because human life cannot be priced. The moment we turn patients into cost-benefit equations, compassion becomes conditional—and history warns us exactly where that logic ends.