> I did not claim nobody's medical care was affected.
You said the flight doesn't contribute to preventing harm to anyone. Interfering with medical care is a clear form of harm, that's why I focused on it.
> it's not common to fly for medical care (yes, very rich people may have a different perception, but that's all it is)
That's incorrect on both counts: it's common, and it's not just rich patients. Please take a look at the Medical tourism Wikipedia article I linked above. Cost-reduction is a major motivation of medical tourism.
From [0] :
> in 2016 nearly 144,000 UK citizens travelled abroad for medical treatment. The survey suggests a steady increase since 2000, even though the 2016 sample of 250,000 travellers represent 0.23% of the total number of travellers entering or leaving the UK.
You said the flight doesn't contribute to preventing harm to anyone. Interfering with medical care is a clear form of harm, that's why I focused on it.
> it's not common to fly for medical care (yes, very rich people may have a different perception, but that's all it is)
That's incorrect on both counts: it's common, and it's not just rich patients. Please take a look at the Medical tourism Wikipedia article I linked above. Cost-reduction is a major motivation of medical tourism.
From [0] :
> in 2016 nearly 144,000 UK citizens travelled abroad for medical treatment. The survey suggests a steady increase since 2000, even though the 2016 sample of 250,000 travellers represent 0.23% of the total number of travellers entering or leaving the UK.
See also [1].
[0] https://doi.org/10.58248/PB38 Outward medical tourism (2020)
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3812100/ Medical Tourism: A Cost or Benefit to the NHS? (2013)