Richard Wolff on US Medical Costs

"The International Federation of Health plans did a study... For most procedures in the hospital (you know, appendectomies, births, the things you go to hospitals for), for most Hospital procedures, and for most drugs, most of the rest of the world (get ready) measured by these countries pays less than half what it costs to do exactly the same thing in the United States. It's extraordinary. It's a wonderful summary, a statistic of how medical care is a gigantic ripoff in the United States that is not equaled anywhere in the rest of the world"

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