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Re:California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patient... by StanislavPetrov on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:21PM (#21103304)
>You can't compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care.

That's right you can't. The USA is 31st in life expectancy and falling, behind virtually every other industrialized nation in the world in addition to countries like Chile, Slovenia and Costa Rica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

Re:California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patient... by Sir_Vival on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:03AM (#21105400)
That's disengenuous at best. Health care only goes so far when half of our population is obese. I would think survival rates for various diseases would be a better metric.