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This is 100% true, not sure why you're being downvoted. I imagine this will be the leading cause for the spread in the US. We like to on the image that we're first world, but that's only in regards to our professions and their education and training. Once you get into the details of the rest of the system we are anything but that. The healthcare system is merely another profit generating tool in this capitalism-above-all nation.

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And would you rather be in a Chinese hospital or an American one? And, before you answer, you might want to have visited a regular Chinese hospital first. In China, you would be safer far away from a hospital.

This is unfounded, xenophobic fearmongering.

You don't have to be racist to prefer a hospital in a wealthy first-world country over a hospital in an authoritarian third-world country.

Anyone who has experienced both can speak to the disparity.

China is not a third-world country.

True, especially since the definitions have shifted since the end of the cold war. China is a developing country.

Google "Medical Tourism India".

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