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Re:Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Healt... by worik on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:55AM (#35322980)
Really?

An operating theatre cost many thousands of dollars an hour to run, the pre and post care is also very expensive. You may never need them (I hope you do not) but if you do it would almost surely bankrupt you without either socialised medicine (yay - sort of - another story) or insurance.

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Re:Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Healt... by runamok on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:18AM (#35323462)
Most other countries are around what he is talking about ($2.5k to $4k) whereas the US > $10k. https://www.insider.com/costs-giving-birth-around-the-world-...

Certainly when things go wrong it can get more costly but the US consistently costs 2 to 3x more for everything AND usually has worse health outcomes. US maternal mortality is an embarrassment: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020... .

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Re:Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Healt... by glass3 on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:18AM (#35323464)
The markets don't work if delivering a child leads to bankruptcy. Either people pay for unnecessary procedures or those procedures cost too much.
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