thranx on 24 June 2012
| Mr Khan said: Honestly the Japanese setup seems to be the better option. They have aboveboard single-payer (that is, it's not hidden in taxes, you pay in up-front), and then they subsidize a certain amount of your health care based on your income bracket. They forced all study-abroad students to enroll, so i got 75% off all health treatments (never needed one, but one or two students did in the course of the semester), and then paid the lowest level of payments in. Japan has much lower health-care costs across the board, too, something that needs to be done in America (with lower pay for doctors, for one, despite much of their system being privately run) |
I think the average Japanese person is more healthy than the average American. That probably plays a big part.
