What is the cost of a doctors visit in America?|175824

Or do you have to have medical insurance? In New Zealand a visit costs from thirty dollars and public health at the hospitals is free, interested in the comparison.

Interestingly enough, there was an article about that in today_s New York Times, comparing the cost of health care in Canada vs. the USA.

Check out the link below to read the article, but the short answer is that health care in the USA is VERY expensive! You MUST have health insurance because even a simple visit to a hospital emergency room can cost, like, $10,000!!

Unfortunately, the people who could decide to give Americans the sort of affordable health care enjoyed by the rest of the civilized world are all corrupt and they profit from the fact that we don_t have affordable health care, so, we probably never will (see 2nd link, below)

Different doctors charge different rates. There is really no set guideline an there is a huge range in pricing.

You can have insurance and the then pricing will depend on the kind of policy you have...some people pay a 10 USD deductible for doctor_s visits, some pay a little more. Some get certain testing and procedures free, others pay a fraction of those.

There was a story on the news just the other day about a family who brought in 2 salaries, paid their bills, etc, but one member of the family got cancer and needed a treatment that wasn_t covered by their policy and the only way they could afford to pay for the treatment was to declare bankruptcy after they spent all their savings on services so they could get public health services for the remainder of the treatment.

Unfortunately, this happens here quite a lot. Here_s the video of the story:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/v��


I_m assuming that New Zealand, like a lot of European countries has national health care (at least that_s what your description sounds like). The US has been trying to institute something like this for decades with no success, but it seems Obama may try again or at least try to improve the health care system so people don_t have to choose between food and medicine or between having a roof over their heads and staying alive.