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Originally Posted by Yngwie
Exactly. My dad has been in the hospital for 5 months now. He's had over 5 MRIs done, 5 CT scans, 2 LPs, 4 different operations, 4 different rooms, 14 different doctors including 4 specialist etc.. The bill?? ZERO! and he will be there for even longer.
Now, if this was in the US this would have cost him a fortune. SO ya, some fixing needs to be done to the US health system. Our isn't perfect either, but I'll take ours over theirs.
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that that much medical treatment in the US would cost in the $250K range.
(and rising)
Even if he had health insurance I bet his deductible amount would be $50K +