A Wacom Cintiq 12" Pen Display sells for £850 in the UK. In the US, it's $999. That's 40% less at today's exchange rate!
On the other hand, I just heard a friend in the US needs to pay $5,000 to get two broken molars fixed by his dentist. Here in the UK I never paid more than £450 to get a tooth fixed, even with a gold crown. (And it's a full privately paid clinic I use.) What's going on?
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Root canals plus new crowns and perhaps an implant.
Still, outrageous. We need a national health system -- one that works.
I had to get a new tooth put in and two crowns when I smashed my pretty face up falling off my bike - it cost about $2000. When I was in England and had to get a root canal, it cost chump change whereas here it would be a couple of hundred bucks. Partly it is because unlike in England dental stuff is not covered by our equivalent of the NHS.
Americans are paying the price for turning their legal system into a lottery. Professional insurance fees are unbelievable in the U.S.
Good for them.
The lawyers.
gregory said: "We need a national health system -- one that works."
That's what you, sort of, have now: A federally regulated health care system -- which is why it doesn't work.
What US needs is to get back to the free market health care system it once had.
The federal systems that the UK, Canada, France, and others places have may be flawed, but they are far better than a free market system. For one thing it keeps costs way down, and it makes even the poorest able to get the treatment they need. No one denies the system isn't perfect, but like democracy itself it's still better than of the alternatives.
"No one denies the system isn't perfect, but like democracy itself it's still better than of the alternatives."
My opinion too.
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