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in Japan where the government sets the prices, dentists do things over 3 visits that dentists in other places would do in 1 because then they can bill the gover
by nox101 2y ago
in Japan where the government sets the prices, dentists do things over 3 visits that dentists in other places would do in 1 because then they can bill the government set price 3 times instead of one
- nightshift1 2y agothat's crazy ! Do they at least schedule the 3 visits back to back in the same day ?
- pilotneko 2y agoWell, that seals the deal. If it doesn’t work for dentists in Japan, there is no point changing anything at all for US healthcare policy.
- josephg 2y agoThere are certainly problems in the healthcare systems in other countries. I don’t think there’s any perfect system. But if you ask me, “you have to go to the dentist 3 times” is a much better problem than “even people with health insurance go bankrupt regularly as a result of getting ill and needing medical care”. The US government spends a similar amount of money per person on healthcare as other western countries do. But unlike Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and so on, people don’t even get free healthcare in exchange for all that tax money. The system is deeply flawed. I don’t know anything about the Japanese healthcare system, but I’d still choose to be sick in Japan than America any day of the week.
- hattmall 2y agoI'm sure you could offer the Japanese dentist 10% of what the procedure would cost in the US and they would do it in one trip. It cost about 25% of US prices to fly to Costa Rica, stay at a resort, and get the procedure done in a top notch facility. And that's if you just need 1 root canal and crown. If you need even more done the savings move closer to 90%. And that is a really nice places. You could drive to Mexico and get it done at a decent place for comparatively nothing.
- FireBeyond 2y agoMy dental work in Cancun was under $30K including flights from Seattle and 10 days at a higher end hotel (Westin), for work I was quoted up to $65K for in the US.
- hattmall 2y agoHonestly that seems high but I can see Cancun being a lot more expensive because people are comfortable going there.
- FireBeyond 2y agoThe actual dental work was $23K, so about 35% of the US quotes.
- throw16180339 2y agoNo system is perfect, but Japanese healthcare administrative costs are under 2% as compared to 30+% in the US.