Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France

Quote from jficquette:

You can get them all day long whenever you need them for $450 if you pay cash.
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that's actually true. So when I got my $10,000 hospital bill, I called up the billing department and asked, "What is your best price?"

they told me 7k

I said I only had 5k

and I swear this is the truth, the billing agent said (just like a car salesman), "What can I do to get you to settle this bill today?"

We settled on 5k paid by credit card

(still didn't cover the $250 wheelchair ride)
 
Quote from Stok:

Uh huh...and the guberment is better to run it? Every venture besides the Military, the guberment is a total failure and corrupt.
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Every thing but the military?? LOL
What a waste.
 
Quote from Stok:

Uh huh...and the guberment is better to run it? Every venture besides the Military, the guberment is a total failure and corrupt.
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Couldn't agree more! Just look at how much better our mail service is now that the post office has been cut loose! And passport issuance! Have you noticed how cheap and fast it is to get a passport now that issuance has been privitized? Amazing! Or medical care for example, have you noticed how much better medical care is for those under 65 than those over? And my goodness how cheap it is! Yup, best medical care that money can buy, and it's because ours is private sector, and the rest of the world, for example, Australia, Canada, France, and Finland and other backward countries, have stupid public sector medical care. Sucks for them! You are truly a genius! :D
 
Quote from Stok:

Uh huh...and the guberment is better to run it? Every venture besides the Military, the guberment is a total failure and corrupt.
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It's also good of you to remind us of our beloved killing machine and how it is the only part of the entire "guberment" that isn't a "total failure and corrupt".

Here's something from Youtube illustrating how efficient our "guberment" killing machine is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpWqdPMjmo

If only all those "failed and corrupt" parts of the "guberment" like the Public Health System (including the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control), the National Laboratories, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology could just be half as efficient as our wonderful killing machine, our entire "guberment" (except for the killing machine of course!) wouldn't be such a dismal "failure" and so "corrupt".
 
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