Should health-care professionals ever refuse treatment to a patient who cannot pay for it?

Con: Life and health are not to be valued in economic terms.

Pro: Not all health-care professionals need to accept patients who cannot pay for medical services. As long as there are other, equally competent medical personnel dedicated to providing free or low-cost services, some health-care professionals may refuse to provide care to the patients who cannot pay.

Pro: Medical practitioners do valuable work for society and deserve to be compensated for their efforts. Unless the practice of medicine is rewarded with adequate pay, those who have the greatest talents for the practice will not have an incentive to enter the medical profession.

Con: Most drug companies and physicians are able to make life-saving medicines or treatments affordable or even free to those who need them.