Thread: pssst- want some cheap good stuff?

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

In Harden, Montana, in 2011 I had a chest infection and went to the Big Horn County Community Hospital. Consultation US$280, course of antibiotic capsules and bottle of cough mixture US$84. Doctor discussed the OZ system and said USA needs one similar. Doc. was dumbfounded when I told her the same treatment in Oz would have cost me AU$11.20 for the two prescriptions. She has patients who can't afford insurance, can't afford repeat visits, can't afford to fill prescriptions.

I could imagine someone like Kurt Vonnegut or Jack Kerouac narrating something like that on the radio.

You can't make the really good weird stuff up, just live it, remember it and pass it on.

The background message is the foil to the weirdness:- because the US is very wealthy and could reasonably easily do a good job of universal health care if the issue wasn't a political football.

cheers, DL

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