When I got in a minor fender bender a couple of years ago, I was required to get checked out by insurance to make sure I wasn't injured. The doctor visit, which lasted 20 minutes max, costed me $500 out of pocket because my health insurance sucked. The premiums for my insurance with that job was raised 60% during my tenure there. Some places have really great health insurance, others...not so much.
I am from Spain and i can tell this is true. Great ammount of peolple comes here to recive medical treatments because it's free and we have a good medical service while in their countries they are trated as shit if they don't pay
No, not neccecarily.
But the U.S. does have some of the best healthcare in the world.
People the world over come over here when they get hurt because we are much faster and much more efficient.
I don't think most people would fly over there for things like hip replacements though. It's more for the major surgeries like people getting cool prosthetics and conjoined twins getting separated and brain surgeries. The big things that America has the technologies and services to handle where other countries don't.
A lot of Americans are heading to South east Asia and Mexico for surgeries too expensive in the US. I think it's called medical vacations. So going outside the US for medical services is common. US has some of the best medical services but also has some of the worst. Read about a woman whose brain was essentially fried getting treatment for a benign tumour because an attachment on the radiation machine wasn't fitted properly.
Fly to Spain. Tell me if the cheaper service is as timely and efficient as the US's when you get back.
But the U.S. does have some of the best healthcare in the world.
People the world over come over here when they get hurt because we are much faster and much more efficient.