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Originally Posted by pornask
Anyone can go to the US to get the operation done - provided they can pay for it. Based on Sicko - reattachment of a middle finger is $60 000 US dollars. More serious operation will go at about half million dollars. Some complicated shit like transplants or what not will be 6 or 7 figure number. For as long as you can afford to pay such high prices, you can certainly get it done in the US. Regardless of where you live - whether it be Canada, EU or any other place in the world.
The thing is, that we're talking about 1% of people who can afford this shit. However the option is there. US doctors are in it for the money. If you can afford it, it doesn't matter to them where you are from. So people from other parts of the world have an option to go to the US or visit a privately owned hospital in their country, where they will not have to wait, but will be charged a feww that's not low. People from the US don't have these options, they always have to pay (unless they go for a trip and pretend it happened to them while being there, so they can get free treatment from that country). They can get themselves insured, but after having seen Sicko, it's fairly interesting to know how insurance companies will find the way to make sure you are an exempt form the coverage, should there be the situation...
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The story of the two fingers was more than pathetic *lol* What doctor would actually only elect to perform an operation based on cost and leave a person one fingertip short?? (Other than in the US).
The irony is any US person travelling thru any universal healthcare country would have medical attention if needed - and at no cost. If it was the guy missing his fingers - they would attempt to replace both of them without talking about money.
Yup - can think of even a few evolving countries where US people travel to get treatment like heart operations - tho most of this is fee-based, but at around 25% of the cost of the same operation in the US.
Got this healthcare travel insurance and it's OK on cost - unless you elect to travel to the US *lol* Then the cost increases around 5 fold. Can see the point of that elderly lady from Canada not travelling to the US unless she had healthcare insurance.
Truth is healthcare has become a profit center for the benefit of insurance companies - all they need to do now is expand that to include services from law enforcement and fire services - then check with the insurance company when there is a murder to see if it's covered before calling the law *lol*