1. Not everyone can luck out and get a job with benefits. When you get older, the cost of health insurance skyrockets. Numerous people cannot take early retirement because health insurance for a married couple in their early sixties costs as much as 18K annually. If you have a condition, you can’t even get insurance.
2. There are a handful of foreign hospitals which meet American standards and have JCI accredition.
Check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paNRv-—Adw
As more illegal aliens flood our country, the cost of medicine skyrockets. You see, insured and uninsured Americans foot the bill for them, because hospitals and doctors transfer the costs to the people who will pay. ‘
The burden is WORSE on the uninsured because they pay cash and they don’t have a lobby, like the insurance companies, to pressure the hospitals. Uninsured patients often pay 3 times what an insured patient pays for the same treatment.
Hospitals and doctors don’t have price lists for their services because they can’t play fast and loose with the billing process if they have a declared cost for a procedure.
This is what illegal immigration and the unprecedented influence of the corporatisation of medical care has done to our system. For now, it’s from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.....unless you’re part of the protected class, like illegal aliens or insurance companies.