Brit dies in Bangkok hospital after being stranded for 2 month while family struggled to pay bill

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It's not human decency it's moral hazard. If hospitals were to alleviate the risk associated with not having travel insurance by bailing out the few reckless individuals like the one in this article, then it would increase the roi:risk ratio of not having insurance encouraging more people to not get insurance. The end result is an overburdened and underfunded medical system where everybody suffers.

No, it's human decency to help others.

"Humans" are only wired to really care about people in a select group (friends and/or family in this case) while having no deep need to help others. They might pretend differently, but for the most part that is the case. We may "sympathize" with people but that is about where it ends. Humans after all is said is done might be more intelligent than your average animal -- but we are still really a "pack animal" -- defensive of people with our "pack" but outside of our group not really. If were not we would probably go mental trying to help everyone that crosses our path or for that matter anyone that has a hard luck story.

With all the claims about it is only "human decency" over the last 3 or 4 days.... only 1 new contributor (worth 20GBP) has bother to make a pledge to help the family. So if it is only "human decency" then there are really no decent humans to speak of.

""Humans" are only wired to really care about people in a select group (friends and/or family in this case) while having no deep need to help others. "

Absolute, total and utter supposition - you will find nothing to support you facile little homemade hypothesis and you have the audacity to post it as if it is a fact......what a maladroit piece of conjecture