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“People going bankrupt because they had a major illness and people who can’t go to the hospital because they can’t afford the copays.”
“I’m in Japan RN and I’ve had a condition with chronic infections that almost killed me a couple of times since we’ll before I got here. Over the past week, I found out I had an infection that spread from my sinuses to my ear and the neurons of my eyes.
I saw a specialist the evening I noticed something was wrong (which would have taken weeks in the US), who referred me to a hospital first thing the following morning. At the hospital, I had a series of tests done all day, a surgery in my ear, and was put on a course of IV antibiotics along with steroids and painkillers.
I’m uninsured.
This all cost me around $400. Sucks that it’s the last bit of money I had for the month, but all that in the US would have been a life-ruining sum of money and taken months to complete (likely allowing the condition to worsen, thus requiring even more intervention and costing more money — which maybe is the point, now that I think about it).”
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