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There is a premium price to pay for quality health and medical care. The question is, how much is too much.
About 12 years ago I visited a in network dentist in OC, California seeking the free dental cleaning with the out of pocket co-pay of 15 USD. Instead what my wife and I got was a 12,000 USD estimate for suggested work that needed to be done. WTF!
I happen to be traveling in Europe and the FSU countries. We visited two private clinics that overcharged us because we we're foreigners. We paid about 500 USD.
Keep in mind that each of those clinics where considered the best in the city capital, and frequented by local politicians and wealthy society folks.
My impacted molar was removed for 60 USD, and a panoramic dental x-ray was either 8 or 10 USD.
No one suggests that a dentist should or could work for such little money, but the overall system we have in the US is broken.
For the 11,500 I coincedendently saved ... it opened my eyes to the meaning of medical tourism. I can take a month long holiday outside of the country, get myself fixed up more ways than one, and still have 6000 USD remaining in my pocket after all expenses.
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