• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    China doesn’t have free healthcare, but they build hospitals and train doctors to keep healthcare cheap. There’s also state run insurance. I got a ortho consult for 1.5USD, and a retainer reattached for 15 USD, as a walk-in. Last year I got a consult, x-ray, and ultrasound for like 12 USD in a more rural hospital after a motorbike accident. Also antibiotics and wound cleaning, but I don’t recall the price. Non-perscription meds are weirdly expensive.

    Cuba is a better model given that they’ve done so much with so little.

    As far as real estate goes, I’m staying in an apartment converted into hotel for 9 USD/night. Rent is hilariously cheap.