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Originally Posted by Kakashi
Yeah, but cost you a fortune...
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I pay for medical insurance, which I almost never use, and it wouldn't cost me very much. TokyoFerrari is right...a couple hundred bucks. The real problem is that with private medical insurance companies, they are a business that is more interested in making money than helping people. Many procedures and surgeries cost LIFE-ENDING amounts of money. Part of the reason for that is that DOCTORS spend 10's of thousands of dollars a year on malpractice insurance. They have that because LAWYERS encourage people to sue any time a person isn't healed 100% after an auto accident, on-the-job injury, etc. Doctors have to protect themselves, and we end up paying the difference.
Japan is not as litigious, (I don't think any country is), and so you get different results.