kl7:
$76k for an emergency appendectomy (via Boing Boing)
I’d beg them to just let me die. Seriously.
Cost if this happened in Canada= $0.
Yes, that also includes all the Jello you can eat.
Reblogging for Jay. Pharma can’t cost that much, can it?
Cost in Canada is NOT zero. Canadiens pay about a 50 percent income tax for the luxury of a state run health insurance.
And even then there are incredible queues for most medical care. Just ask the friend of my wife who died from a recurrence of breast cancer because she couldn’t get an appointment with an oncologist for 3 months after symptoms appeared. Canada’s health has a huge cost in taxes and limited availability (ie rationed) of care.
We have the same waiting lists here (the US). It takes months to see specialists where ever you are I guess.
If you took the amount of $ my husband pays for family coverage and added it to the taxes he pays, it comes damn close to the 50% mark.
There needs to be a better way. I’m moving to France. (Then I could get someone to come do my laundry.)
