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Re:The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that le... by dragonwriter on Saturday November 20, 2021 @10:21PM (#29293920)
> the US and other poor countries.

the US is not a poor country, it is an astonishingly rich country whose elites want poor (and working-class more generally) people insecure so as to maximize the degree to which they can be exploited via economic coercion.

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Re:The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that le... by blntechie on Saturday November 20, 2021 @10:29PM (#29293965)
Of course the US is not a poor country. Sorry if my sentence structure meant that way. The US is in a special cohort when it comes to healthcare where rest in the group are all developing or under developed countries.
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