On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:28:57 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-04-10 4:15 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:59:05 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-04-10 9:45 AM, Gary wrote:
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I spend 4 days in ICU and another 3 nights in the hospital. I was billed
>>>>> nothing for all that.
>>>>
>>>> My God. If that was in the USA, you would face a bill of (just
>>>> guessing) over $20K.
>>>
>>> At the time, bypass surgery here was $10,000 for those you are not
>>> covered by the government plan. In the US it was $20,000, and that is
>>> just the surgery. Hospital room and medication would be extra.
>>
>> The cost of health care in the U.S is just insane. It's something like
>> 2 to 3 times the cost of any other country.
>>
>
>
>It is a for profit system.

Yep. That's what happens when you have lobbyists running rampant,
combined with quasi-legal corruption/nepotism.