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 I think my topic this time will be about the cost of healthcare: should doctors be treat patients who cannot pay for treatment? 

This topic is one that I've looked into before after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. This guy named Paul Farmer set up medical clinics in Haiti, and Russia and spends all his time treating patients who cannot afford medical treatment. He does work in public health too, establishing things like safe-water wells to make major impacts on those disadvantaged communities. He pretty much doesn't take a wage, and instead spends it all on helping buy more things to help the people he treats

Book Cover for Mountains Beyond Mountains

While this is an extreme example (maybe?), realistically people have their own interests to look after. Most doctors do not work for hospitals that are capable/willing to spend all their available resources on patients who could not pay for it, nor are there many (if any) insurance companies that will pay for every treatment. So what should those people who cannot pay everything do? 

I think this is a riveting topic because you could really take this both ways. Doctors and hospitals/businesses have to preserve their own interests, so payment is generally requisite. But morally, they should look to help everyone, even if they are financially incapable of affording treatment.