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There's something I always wondered about 3rd world medicine. If her surgery was $1125 and the average person makes $0.90/day (less than $1) that means her surg
by noonespecial 14y ago
There's something I always wondered about 3rd world medicine. If her surgery was $1125 and the average person makes $0.90/day (less than $1) that means her surgery cost 3.42ish year's wages.
Could I get the same surgery here in the USA for $171233 (median income in the US assumed about $50,000)?
Is there some sort of balancing feedback function thats stretching the cost of a certain level of medical care to a certain predictable multiple of a local year's median wage?
It would at least be an interesting rabbit hole to descend.
- namank 14y agoI would think it would be more complicated given the population difference in the third world vs. the first world. That would be pretty interesting though.