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In most other countries, that same level of critical care would not even come close to $10M. The sticker price of healthcare in the US is so wildly inflated as
by ikr678 5y ago
In most other countries, that same level of critical care would not even come close to $10M. The sticker price of healthcare in the US is so wildly inflated as to be meaningless.
- slownews45 5y agoOther countries don't come close to keeping people alive as long as folks try in the US. New Jersey for example allows for a religious objection to a medical declaration of brain death etc. As long as your heart keeps pumping you can be called alive and provided with intensive care (for years). And yes, your heart pumping can be mechanically driven, they can do feeding tubes and IV's etc - so this means "alive" for a very long time. We need to be clear - that other countries will not provide govt or mandatory care in these types of cases. In places like New Jersey - it is a crime to stop providing care (even when person is fully brain dead) or to stop paying for care if someone has a religious belief someone is alive. “No health care practitioner or other health care provider, and no health service plan, insurer, or governmental authority, shall deny coverage or exclude from the benefits of service any individual solely because of that individual’s personal religious beliefs regarding the application of neurological criteria for declaring death.” You can imagine the costs of these types of laws. There is a small industry in places like California which cap malpractice awards in cases of death but don't if someone is alive to get folks to new jersey where they can be kept "alive" indefinitely to maximum legal payouts etc.