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You’re close to the age where the realization sinks in that access to world-class health care, both emergency and otherwise, is near the top of your priorities.
by subpixel 2y ago
You’re close to the age where the realization sinks in that access to world-class health care, both emergency and otherwise, is near the top of your priorities.
I have a place overseas I want to escape to but I think about what would happen if I had x or y entirely probably health emergency. I have family there so I dont’t have to use my imagination.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoI have mixed feelings about this. Most health care can be had more affordably outside the US. There are places where it is relatively cheap and relatively high quality. In fact, life expectancy is lower in the US than it is in, even the UK, at every income level. So for some level of medical care you may actually do better outside. Granted, if you get cancer you probably want to return to the US. And you do trade time, life, sedentary time at a desk, for the money that pays for the location. What happens if you work less, go someplace cheaper, and use your decreased stress and increased time to look after your health more? I'm not sure about any of this.
- elhudy 2y ago> In fact, life expectancy is lower in the US than it is in, even the UK, at every income level. So for some level of medical care you may actually do better outside. This only makes sense if one assumes a society’s medical care is the main driver of its population’s life expectancy rating.
- drewcoo 2y agoIf the lettered variable were really bad, you'd go to a local (within several states) trauma hospital. You don't worry too much about PCP-in-network at that point. We could, of course, have very different notions of "health emergency."