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Idk, doctors in France are literally 10x cheaper and the standard of care is actually higher. The US has a big cost control issue even for your PCP.

This is simply not true enough to be generalized. In most hospitals always pay at the exit unless you weren't there for some pre defined checkup package instead of proper consulting.

I am sure you have data to back up your claim that "standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower." Care to post it?

I’ve only been in the hospital in India once (food poisoning), but everything was vastly different from the states. It was pretty cheap, and I had to pay up front.

Fairly sure Indian doctors make much less than American ones, because I don’t have the empirical evidence of that that you are looking for.