Interesting, apparently some people are unaware that both the UK and Canada rank higher on the healthcare quality lists than the US. Oh yeah, these are from this year, not almost a decade ago.It's interesting you posted those links. I have a friend who has cancer. He cannot afford treatment here in the US and he does have health insurance. So he has been flying to London for his treatments, which cost him significantly less, and has been very effective. There was some guy who needed a hip replacement on the news not too long ago, that after shopping around here in the US realized that getting the hip he needed was so costly he couldn't afford it, but he also found through research that medical malpractice and rate of infection was much higher in the US. So he ended up going to a different country for his surgery and care. He said he had excellent care and recovered quickly for 1/2 the cost it would have been here in the US.
http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian...ealth-systems/
http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Rep...spectiveRB.pdf Originally Posted by chefnerd
Here is an article that talks about US consumers and the vague pricing of medical care in hospitals in the US.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50748682/n...k-finding-out/