I learned a lot about the U.S health care system from this course, and found that actually people in China are facing the similar problem. Medical services are extremely expensive for those poors who live in rural areas. One visit to local hospital may cost all their savings, not to mention there're so many unnecessary services. For those in big cities? Maybe a surgery will take away one year's income.
What's worse, most people dare not challenge the authority of physicians. You do what they say, that's all. I don't know whether it happens in U.S., but it's an unspoken rule to give bribes to surgeon if you have a surgery. For those low SES families, this is an extra cost. It's not because you want the surgeon to treat you more carefully, it is because everybody else are doing the same thing......
The industrialization of education system in China has already caused many problems, making poor children harder to go to school. And now the health care sytem has the same trend. It's hard to imagine that the money we cannot even afford the education of our children and the medical service but it's happening. I could only wish that I live healthily.
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