Talk:Haru Shirazu/@comment-72.27.211.156-20151201042425/@comment-10733658-20160401041951

Well, we don't know how things are in comparison to the real world. But according to Wikipedia, the Japanese system people either have insurance through employers or are included in a national system that pays 70% of all costs, with an adjustment for low-income households and younger patients. So Haru being a minor would mean lower costs, though it seems like there's something going on where Shirazu (and now the other Quinx) seem to have been paying out of pocket for the Rc suppressants.

In general, hospitals cannot just withdraw life support and let a patient die as a result of inability to pay. But what they could probably do is obtain some sort of legal ruling naming a third party as the new executor of care. Then that person would have the authority to order the patient taken off life support.