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Yea T-Rex, it can get pretty bad in the states as everything is private (except for some free clinics peppered here and there, but those are really for homeless people and drug addicts). If you get seriously ill and need surgery or need to stay in the hospital for awhile, the bill can get pretty steep (we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars). But if you have a job, you usually can get health insurance that covers stuff like that; but like Kitsa and Tadao have said, it's corrupt and as with all insurance companies, they work to find ways to NOT pay up.

Even so, it's still the best system in the world and where everyone should go to get the best quality healthcare, if they can afford it. The trouble with universal or government run health care is that it doesn't have any competition or incentive to improve, so the quality fails and it's constantly being abused.