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The jaw surgery I underwent some years ago could have been paid like 5 times for this in central Europe. Absolute insanity

At this price levels, I bet there is a whole market in the US for do-it-yourself medicine (aka. snake-oil-selling).

For Europeans, this is shocking, I wonder if people in Asia or Africa have similar financial troubles if they ever need medical assistance.

I paid $2,000 last year for a hospital emergency department to superglue a cut on my son's head, it took 10 minutes. Next time, I'm going to glue it myself.

I tend to work on the basis that Thais get paid about a fifth that Americans do, and this would have cost you $200 by an American-trained doctor in a world-class hospital in Bangkok. If you’re actually poor, social security would cover it.

That's why the US political system is broken. Companies lobby representatives for incentives and breaks and in the end you get something like this. It's dysfunctional.