Health Care CEO murdered in NYC in a targeted attack

[jimintoronto]

Because few people can afford to pay cash for it. My cataract removals were each billed at $30,000, before Medicare took care of the vast majority of it. Shocking, and of course I know that Medicare didn't pay the entire enchilada. BUT cash customers would have paid a small fortune to have 2 cataracts removed. There's a lot of profit built into that figure ($60K total) ... assuming anyone actually pays that.

Meanwhile, here in Ontario that same medical procedure costs the patient NOTHING. Yep, no charge at the point of service, covered under the Ontario Health Insurance Program called OHIP. Yes we ALL pay into it through our income taxes, which are about 5 percent higher here, than on the same income in the USA, would be. The Doctor who did mine in 2022 has 30 years of experience and he trains other Doctors from all over the world here at Toronto's Western Hospital. JIM.

 

[Rakaia]

Because few people can afford to pay cash for it. My cataract removals were each billed at $30,000, before Medicare took care of the vast majority of it.

Knock me down with a feather, that is ridiculous.
The lens is as cheap as chips, someone is clearly being greedy.
I was effectively blind in one eye so I paid cash to avoid being on the public waiting list, I paid a massive $AUD ~3500.00, which is many times more than the cost of performing cataract surgery in Nepal, Vietnam or Eritrea.