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There is no perfect system, but my 87 year old grandmother has been in hospital since May now. She went in for a fairly routine vein surgery, shortly after which she fell and broke her hip. So she had a hip surgery (replaced the ball, not the socket.) During which surgery she had a stroke, so she now can't talk sense and has lost motor skills in her legs and right arm. She also had a slight infection that they cleaned up. She had a reaction to the anasthetic and had to be on a feeding tube for two weeks. Cost? 0$ (Do I want to sue them for some malpractice? probably but wouldn't get anything anyway)
I wonder what that would have cost in one of the States. Would she have died leaving the rest of our small family with hundreds of thousands in debt?
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