My Slice Of Life

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Leftish: In the United States, an MRI scan is $1009.00

leftish:

In Britain it’s $187.00.

In the United States, bypass surgery costs over $59,000, in Britain just shy of $14,000.

Why do we pay so much, more than any other country in the world, and have relatively so little to show for it?

We outspend the rest of the world but in a country like…

THIS right there is a large part of why US health care costs more.

As a whole, our country is so.fucking.scared of death.  People don’t look at it like a next chapter.  Instead we waste billions of dollars putting it off as long as possible.  This is why people get to be on artificial life support for decades WHEN THEY’LL NEVER RECOVER, why our seniors in nursing homes are basically pickled due to massive drug prescriptions, etc etc.

Then add in the cost of malpractice insurance, R&D, fixed hospital costs and it’s easily discernible why our costs are so much more. 

(via littlebitsoflust)

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    britain has free healthcare though?
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    THIS right there is a large part of why US health care costs more. As a whole, our country is so.fucking.scared of...
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    Yeeeup, I fix and install MRI’s with my dad. He buys and sells them. In capitalism, you dont help people, you do...
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