Due to rising costs, my surgeon is now charging me 500€ for my surgery. That's if I don't have a « mutuelle » (insurance). If I have one, there is no out-of-pocket cost. The monthly cost of the mutuelle is 30€ to 100€ a month.
The same surgery in the US costs around $20,000 without insurance. With it, you have co-pays, deductibles, partial coverage and potentially uncovered procedures.
@ovid Only $20k for the surgery? Must be a quick outpatient thing done at the doctor's office.
Medical costs in the US are utterly appalling. That fact got driven home when we were prepping for our stay in France last year where I found the exact same thing (cheaper without insurance in France than with insurance in the US) and I have good insurance. Which, collectively, Google pays an utterly insane amount for. (somewhere past $4B if I'm mathing right, for ~200k people)
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