Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
High health care spending is yet another way the US subsidizes other countries. From the article:<p>"This is a good deal for residents of other countries, as our high spending makes medical innovations more profitable. “We end up with the benefits of your investment,” Sackville says. “You’re subsidizing the rest of the world by doing the front-end research.”<p>In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US?<p>Of course the MRI machine was itself invented in the US:
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