Monday, May 24, 2021

Health Care in the USA

Health Care in the USA

A Chinese Perspective

Spring 2015



Selia, my student from China, is in CA right now and she is sick.  She posted a request on Facebook and asked us what medicine she could take for what sounds like an abscessed tooth.  Several of us suggested that she go to a doctor/dentist.


In China, there is no cost to see a doctor or dentist.  But there is a cost for medicine. Last year, I went to a doctor who gave me three boxes of medicine and charged me $5.  I remember Selia thought I had paid too much money for that service.

Today, she went to a doctor and this is what she posted on Facebook:

 "I think the most expensive thing in America is to be sick. The doctors are like robbers."

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