re: Health Insurance Costs Are Out Of Control

We got a kid admitted to the local hospital without really comprehending the local system. He was in bad shape.

Went back the next day and they’d done nothing. They told us he needed some imaging and it wasn’t covered. It was $30 so we paid it. Went back the next day and they said he needed medicine but they didn’t have it and it wasn’t covered. So we walked a block to a pharmacy and bought the medicine for $30.

He was discharged in two more days. If we hadn’t been there, not so much.

Socialized medicine is “amazing.”

My brother has had some experiences in Italy. He had a coworker fly home after a heart attack rather than get treatment in Italy after spending less than 24 hours in the “best hospital” in Rome.

I’m sure it would be amazing and completely different and not at all subject to the law of scarcity in the US.