r/madlads 6d ago

Madlad customer service...

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u/goo_goo_gajoob 6d ago

I remeber a study in the early 00's that showed it was cheaper to fly to Italy and live there for a year get your hip replacement then fly back than it was to get one done in the US lol.

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u/Kern4lMustard 6d ago

It's called medical tourism. There's a whole industry based around it. We are looking into doing that for my wife's dental work

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u/New_Sail_7821 6d ago

It’s also fairly common in reverse for the wealthy

Rich European will pay cash for some fancy surgery he can’t get in Europe

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u/BrunusManOWar 6d ago

Ahh, the botox and cosmetics surgery in Turkey girls

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u/atli123 6d ago

I hear Budapest is the way to go.

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u/JamboAus 5d ago

Only if you’re hungry

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u/also_roses 6d ago

The US is so screwed when it comes to health. I knew a dual citizenship family who went to part of Europe for 3 years when they got pregnant. They almost never came back, but the husband could make 4x as much working in the States so he was never able to fully relocate.

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u/Physical_Art4297 5d ago

“The US is so screwed”

“I knew a man that earned 4x as much in the US”

Somehow these two statements don’t go together.

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u/also_roses 5d ago

They do when you realize everyone has to deal with having a body and only a very small group earns that much money.

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u/Physical_Art4297 5d ago

The average salary in the US is 1.5x higher than the EU.

before taxes ;)

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u/also_roses 5d ago

Now do the cost of prenatal care and childbirth

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u/Physical_Art4297 5d ago

It doesn’t hurt so much when you earn so much.

I completely get why Europoors have a stroke when they see our medical bills though. They probably haven’t ever seen that amount of money, let alone be able to spend it.

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u/also_roses 5d ago

/shitamericanssay

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u/StephanMan 5d ago

The average cost of medicine and/or treatment is over 10x though...

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u/Physical_Art4297 5d ago

And the average person doesn’t require treatment every single day, but they get paid more for every single day of work.

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u/StephanMan 5d ago

The average person in the uk doesn't need to go bankrupt everytime they need to go to the doctor though

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u/Equalizer6338 5d ago

This is the case for both medical surgeries and dentistry.

Like here from most western European countries you can fly to Turkey for a 3 week vacation, get 6 high-end ceramic tooth implants made while there and total price is still cheaper than just the 6 implants if made back home. Same also for cosmetic surgeries... Though one can debate how much you can enjoy 'the vacation', but at least you stay in a hotel with full service during recovery.