“The average cost of a three-day hospital stay is $30,000.” #HelenOuyang https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/health-care-anger.html
The New York Times · Opinion | What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger
@KimSJ@mastodon.social@interfluidity I recently spent 8 hours in an English A&E, including blood tests and a CT scan of my head, because I was seeing double in one eye. And I had a follow-up two days later with the eye clinic. Total cost? Nothing. Zero. Nada. (Unless you count the small car park charge.) America has no idea what it’s missing out on!
@KimSJ we joke, but not really, in my family that the best time to fall ill is during international travel. we’ve always had simple, helpful, reasonably priced experiences when we’ve accessed health care with no insurance at all, anywhere outside the US.