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Originally Posted by Dueller
Welcome to the wonderful world of health care in the U.S. Best medical care in the world yet most expensive and least accesible.
Sad thing is that the medical personnel most important (nurses and docs) probably only received a fraction of that amount...I'd be shocked if the doc bill was more than a grand.
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Don't post that over on the "Politics and Religion" section of this website. There are several screaming tighty-righties who will call you all sorts of names, call you a homosexual, and tell you that your a thief who wants to take money out of their pockets when you complain about the sorry state of our privatized heath care system.
In Belgium, where I lived for nearly a year in 1999/2000, if you get sick/hurt, you walk into the hospital. You get treated. Then you walk out. There's no hassle. There's no "well, that's a pre-existing condition." There's no "sorry, you've reached the end of your coverage, so now you can just....die" There is none of that. They treat you, and when you are healthy again, you go home.
We, in the US, spend 16% of our GDP on maintenance. Human maintenance, that is. Belgium has a socialized/private system where the government manages the private companies; they make a small profit, but it is completely controlled. Expensive? NO- the Belgian government spends 12% of GDP on this sort of hassle-free coverage each year.
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