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    Consumer Confidential: To get well cheaply, get sick overseas

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Sep 24, 2019 3 minutes

    It never fails to astonish when some Americans say they prefer paying the highest healthcare prices in the world and having millions of people uninsured rather than adopt effective approaches to affordable universal coverage found in nearly all other developed countries.

    My recent column on a woman who was charged $200 for a cloth sling for her dislocated shoulder - a price tag about 900% more than similar slings found on Amazon - touched a nerve with many readers.

    Along with dozens of stories about other medical overcharges, I received an eye-opening anecdote

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