118 Times American Healthcare System Shocked The Rest Of The World

To be fair...no one's ever needed to say it out loud

No it needs to be said out loud all the time until it changes

I was recently in the hospital for 6 days. It cost $62,000. My insurance paid $14,000. The hospital tried to come after me for the rest, but my insurance is fighting the "kick back amount." It's utterly ridiculous!!! That was only the cost to stay! Not the doctors fees, testing, medicine, and two surgeries! America has the worst health care system!

I always find it amazing when folks complain about a part of the system or the system as a whole being broken. No its not. Its running just as they want it too. For their benefit. It doesn't matter what political stripe you wear, those that run things care not for us, but only for themsleves and they have the power. And if you believe for one instance that any of them care for you, want things to be better, then you are the problem, not them.

The worst western country where to live. Mass munders, no more national health care, no interest for ecology , creates wars world wide, native American Indians are still baffled by the government of Washington, forging for petrol on Indian reserves, not filtering toxic waste, capital punishments, KKK STILL. IN ACTION, and this what is called the most advanced and free democracy nation in the world, really you must be bats to believe such hog wash. A sort of President who is going to whine up a 3 world war, this totally insane. May God help u all.

awesome shirt though, i would totally hug this cutie

What? They charge for that? That's insane. I can't even

The last time I paid a medical bill was ... never. In Estonia we do have to pay taxes for medical treatment and a 5—euro fee for registration, but never any bills. Unless it's the dentist.

this is shocking charging for that skin to skin contact they should be ashamed of themselves and refund you your money.

Why...Oh she just carried it for 9 months and the first contact is very important for their bond, another dumb way to earn money out of human basic needs?

Ahahah as sad as your US reality is, this sounds like a great plan! Also Spain is quite lovely!

I´m spanish. This is real but we have got the proble we named "healthy tourist" coming for that kind of things and that is payed by all spanish people by tax. we can´t do that for ever, but never like USA, this is just business.

That's private health care in Spain. It would actually be free if you'd paid up your Social Security.

Totally free in the UK.

Free in Scandinavia as every thing else is with the exception of medicine which you may need from the chemist.

Now I'm curious, what is the average billl for a childbirth in a hospital in USA?

Here in Portugal we too have Universal Healthcare and our Medical System is considered even better than the UK one. Before it used to be 100% free but in recent years they introduced these "one off" fees people need to pay when visiting medical services: $5.41 per consultation in a Medical Center and $21.66 per consultation in a Hospital. The following people are exempt to pay those fees: blood donors; firefighters; cancer/HIV/AIDS patients; people with total "house" income (husband+wife) less than $760.30 a month; pregnant women; children up to 18 years of age; handicapped people with more or equal to 60% incapacity; patients that had transplanted organs; handicapped military and ex-military people with permanent incapacity caused by military service; unemployed people and all their family; people that need continued medical care; and people that suffered domestic violence. We also have private (paid) healthcare systems but the quality is on par with the public healthcare system.

I gave birth to my twins prematurely... one spent 3 weeks in the NICU and the other spent 7 weeks in the NICU. My bill was $389,000 after all was said and done O_O Luckily my insurance covered every penny of it.

Same bill as in Sweden.. ;)