>>What was the bill at the end ?
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>>Are you implying there's a maximum price on your life? or your wife's life, or your children's life?
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>>Sounds to me like you're acknowledging who has the best care...and have moved on to the price. <s>
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>You take an article describing the very best example of US private medicine (I acknowledge it exists) and comparing it with the worst of European medicine. I could raise examples of the exact opposite.

I seem to recall someone recently over there agonising over whether he should pay a vet's bill, to save his dog, or consider keeping the money in case his kids get sick?