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Originally Posted by Robbie
Man, I'd love to have your dad come on and explain why hospitals charge the pricegouging prices they do. Or why every medical procedure in the U.S. is 4 and 5 times more expensive than any country in the world. Or why our prescription drugs are 4 and 5 times more expensive (and tons of them that shouldn't require a prescription are forced to have one).
That was just rhetorical by the way. Your dad had nothing to do with what the heads of multibillion dollar corporations like Blue Cross/Blue Shield have done along with Big Pharama and the giant corp's that own hospitals.
But if you don't think that all of them are working together along with our Federal govt. to insure high prices...then you are being naive of what the lobbyists in Washington D.C. have been doing all these decades.
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The answer is simple about the prices, cost of insurance for Doctors is too high, too many people treated do not pay and/or have no insurance, and last but not least, it is a for profit business with a million hands getting cuts every which way.
I had medical care for an emergency on Germany in the 70s where they performed micro surgery and reattached my thumb along with followups for less that the price of the $100 aspirin.
Look at very highly developed 1st word country and I believe they all have socialized medicine. Maybe 1 or 2 other than the USA doesn't.