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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Yikes! US private healthcare and greed, inefficiency in the system really does have a huge impact even on the basic costs of procedures, not just the number of unnecessary procedures performed. Didn't realize the effect would be so pronounced. Check out the price of an angiogram. On average in the US it costs $800 vs $35 in Canada... WTF? How can American politicians and public for that matter continue to justify such an expensive and ineffective health care system with numbers like this?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...res-in-the-us/ |
How exactly is the American public justifying it?
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