• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    yea was about to say the only difference between this article and the US is that in the US it would be death in the office or at home not the hospital bed.

    • Except that the US requires hospitals to treat those who arrive in the ER¹ then they bill you to bankrupt you later. In China, you have to pay first before getting even emergency treatment. (Common trope in Chinese TV shows is a character gets sick and family can’t pay for an expensive emergency surgery and they somehow find a rich relative to pay for it)

      (¹excluding chronic conditions like cancer, apparantly)