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Originally Posted by Burning Down
Also, our healthcare may be universal, but you are still charged for your hospital stay, drugs, dentist, vision care (unless you have a pre existing or genetic condition), and some other things. If you don't have adequate insurance for these things you will pay through the nose.
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Over here you don't even have to pay for your hospital visit or drugs. I was in hospital for 2 weeks and on a huge series of what are expensive drugs in parts of the world where you have to pay for them, and I didn't even have to pay for a cent. It was all included in my public hospital stay.
We do, however, have to pay for optical, dental, "extras", and other random things like sufficient obstetrics care... Which is why I opted for and pay for private health insurance to cover obstetrics, like $100 a month I think it is, just as a security blanket. I still have to pay full price for optical and dental though.
Interesting to hear how things work differently in other parts of the world.