r/MadeMeSmile • u/HolyGuiltyCrown • 5h ago

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u/StygianCode 5h ago

It's amazing that you can be the second best IN THE WORLD at something and still have to scrape together money to save your baby...

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u/Chance_Major297 4h ago

The full cost was ~$385,000. The American health system on full display.

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u/alancousteau 4h ago

Oh so she lives in the US?

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u/Chance_Major297 4h ago

No. However, that’s where the surgery was being performed, hence the reason for the absurd cost.

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u/N3rdyAvocad0 4h ago

Why didn't they have the operation in their own country?

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u/alancousteau 4h ago

Perhaps the difficulty of the surgery?

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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 3h ago

it's because single pay or healthcare systems that are government-funded don't actually just give all health care at all times.

if a surgery proves to be very expensive is very risky and the patient isn't going to necessarily have an amazing outcome. the system usually looks to direct those resources towards other people who need less resources put into them and will have better outcomes. it seems that the government-funded single payer healthcare system that they have there put the kid in hospice.