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"In Japan, the same MRI would cost $160." The upfront cost would be $160, right? I'd prefer to subsidize healthcare for people who actually need help. You and
by natrius 17y ago
"In Japan, the same MRI would cost $160."
The upfront cost would be $160, right? I'd prefer to subsidize healthcare for people who actually need help. You and I are probably around the same place economically speaking, so why don't both of us just pay for our own healthcare?
- daniel-cussen 17y agoAccording to patio11, they are actually cheaper in Japan because of cheap-o machines.
- patio11 17y agoThat did not strike me as something I would say, so I checked on SearchYC and found who actually said it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794374 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794374 My experience on healthcare in Japan is largely positive, except for the one time I really needed it. (And I lived through that, though it was a bit touch and go for a while.) Don't get me started on dental care, though. I had a business trip to Chicago recently and used the opportunity to drop by my parents' dentist for a long overdue routine cleaning. My conversation with them was almost comical: I kept offering to pay them money and they kept asking me how they could help me find a way to get insurance to pay for it. (It ended up costing about five times what my last cleaning in Japan did -- and would have been cheap at twice the price. Don't get me started on Japanese dentistry.)
- daniel-cussen 17y agoMy bad. That's not the quote, but I should have been more specific and quoted something other than a YC comment I vaguely remembered.