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Moses you nailed it.
And I bring the example of my father visiting from Italy...
They came to stay for 2 weeks. After 4 days my dad feels a pain in his back. The next day he can't get out of his bed.
Well since he's not living here, he does not have a doctor and cannot get any prescription. We ourselves are not very familiar with the system so... we take him to the ER.
Well with kindey stones thare really little to be done... so that pain killer at $3,500 was the most expensive pill I ever bought.
My dad was impressed. He kept saying that this is how things are done... private room, 3-4 doctors that come in and treat you in an instant, effective medication etc.
He said that in Italy he would have had to wait in pain for at least 2-3 hours before someone would see him...
I didn't have the hearth to tell him I had to show them my credit card before they admitted him....
Now that I think about it he could have pretended he was an illegal alien and get threated for free....
Still the system (my father does not have an insurance) in that case prevented us from using a cheaper alternative.
We could pay so no big deal, but there are a lot of folks out there that do not have insurance and the only place they can go to is the ER and we all end up bearing the costs of it.
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