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Originally Posted by VanishingPoi
One of the most effective scare techniques employed to preserve our grotesquely inefficient, overpriced health care system has been to invoke the red peril of “socialized medicine”. Never mind that foreigners in advanced economies fail to recognize the caricatures scaremongers supply, or that Americans who need emergency care while overseas are almost without exception impressed with the caliber of care and astonished by the low (sometimes no) cost to them. After all, Americans live in the best of all possible worlds, and consumer and business freedom are always better.
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That's for sure true. My son suffered serious injuries while bicycling in Germany and Israel. His costs for emergency room and subsequent health services in both countries were far less than they would have been here, up to 90% cheaper (and at least as good or better).
06-28-2015, 11:36 AM
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