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Oh come on, I've been around the block to countries that are substantially poorer than the US where people don't have to give up their life's savings for a medi
by Daishiman 9y ago
Oh come on, I've been around the block to countries that are substantially poorer than the US where people don't have to give up their life's savings for a medical intervention.
- kamaal 9y agoActually the parent poster to your comment is right. Most Americans go to other countries as tourists and largely have no idea how hard everyday life there is.
- jacquesm 9y agoQuite a few Americans go to other countries to use their cheap/free healthcare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism Note that America is hardly unique in this respect and is both a destination and a source of such traffic.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoCheap is relative.
- kamaal 9y agoLet's talk about this. Americans go do medical tourism because even the relatively poor to lower middle class Americans can afford luxury medical care in third world countries, what the ordinary citizens in those third world countries can't even dream of. By the way current day US citizens have may be a factor of thousands times more opportunity, freedom and economically supportive ecosystem in all of human history combined, including the current humans anywhere in the world. I can say this as a Indian, who stayed for a few years in the US and came back to India. Little do US citizens realize how easy they have it and how much privilege they have compared to the remainder for the world.
- Daishiman 9y agoSorry, but India is not remotely close to a comparable country. However, medical services in even poor European countries, so some wealthy Latin American countries like Uruguay, are far better than American alternatives.