If our health care were just *average* in cost with the other westernized nations, our costs would drop about 65-70%. There would be no tax hit for anyone, only a huge windfall. Well, the elite invested in robbing the middle class via usurious bills and huge demands of county gov'ts would take a hit, much like the mafia getting tossed in jail takes a hit on racketeering income.
But that would STILL be too expensive for LOUSY health care -- we are NEXT to LAST among those 18 or 20 peers. It's simply deplorable. Whatever happened to the frickin' Hippocratic Oath?
I am wondering why there are not businesses springing up for stuff like knee replacements in India. My dad said last week the average cost is 1500 in India, versus 15000 in the US. Hip replacements, lots of surgery which is not an emergency, get flown to India with your partner, stay in a nice hotel before surgery, then stay there after, then get flown home. I would guess even with an agent taking 5% or so, you would easily save 50-75%. If this kind of medical arbitrage starts en masse, things will change in the US in a heartbeat.
But the current crop of medical professionals who all think they deserve 1 million a year, or 5, or 10... they will not let that happen if they can help it. |
