Altman Part 3

One of the recurring topics in class when discussing the cost of a universal healthcare is how expensive certain treatments are. Altman discusses how the Reagan administration dealt with these patients with extraordinary costs (outliers). Since one of the bigger concerns of the Reagan administration was "to reduce the budget deficit- or at least be budget neutral" (Altman 220). They decided to fund a portion of these costs, but not all of them. I think that this is fair because it would be extremely costly for the taxpayers to fund all of these expensive healthcare options. Of course, the hardest part of this option would be determining  how much the government should help out with. I wish that Altman had covered how they went about making this decision and all of the opinions that were brought to the table.