US Hospital Bill Goes Viral: This Is What Childbirth Costs Without A National Health Service
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In March this year, twitter user @YumiYoko became a mum following a caesarean section. Medical staff at Philadelphia’s Abington Memorial Hospital
handed her a child, while administrators handed her a bill for over
$42,000. Such is life under the US profit-making private healthcare
system...
The US remains the only nation
in the developed world that fails to provide universal healthcare for
its citizens. Even a handful of Developing countries have prioritized
their resources to ensure universal access to health care, including
oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Oman, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, and Cuba, among others...
Britain’s NHS saves more lives per pound ($1.62) spent on it than any healthcare system on earth except Ireland,
and yet the Brits spend half the equivalent GDP the US spends on
healthcare. Yet, as research by respected think tank The Commonwealth
Fund revealed this year, the US has been ranked as having the most expensive and least effective healthcare system of all the industrialized nations…again.
America
needs more than Obamacare, it needs to join the rest of the civilized
world and provide universal, effective and efficient public healthcare
for its citizens. And those nations who were successful in creating such
systems, need to fight for them like their lives depended on it…because
they do.
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