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Re:It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America by fooker on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:08PM (#20700522)
Spends in paper. Getting billed 5000$ for an x-ray doesn't happen in most other countries.
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Re:It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America by Retric on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:31PM (#20700716)
No, the US government is actually #2 in handing money per person to healthcare companies. Though some of this is government employees or retirees.

We also subsidize the most expensive people, including the elderly and people with cancer and AIDS. Plus, we directly subsidize hospitals in rural areas etc. It’s a giant flood of money.

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Re:It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America by fooker on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:39PM (#20701501)
You started with 'no', but then wrote nothing to contradict me.
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Re:It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America by Retric on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:33PM (#20702121)
Spends in paper is perhaps more vague than I was assuming. What did you mean?

I am saying even if you ignore paperwork costs and crazy bills, it’s still a vast sums of money often sent with minimal overhead. The VA for example is quite expensive though somewhat less so than the rest of US healthcare.

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