Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
by 1helloworld1 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:01AM
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Lot of the anecdotes like yours probably stems from a deliberate propaganda campaign started by US Health Insurance companies. This is quick npr podcast about it-
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-...
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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
by dominotw on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:06AM
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> Canadians might wait several weeks or a few months to get a knee replacement
Hard to tell from this what else falls under "knee replacement" category of urgency. I personally know ppl who traveled to india to get a root canal. Weird to dismiss it as " deliberate propaganda campaign " and link to npr article with no actual statistics.