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> Medication is fairly inexpensive and if I have major surgery, I will only be out a couple thousand (the cost of a laptop).

I suspect that not everyone would think this is a small amount of money. From this article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...

"Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency."

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Heh. Be sure not to get in an accident (very often another party's fault) and require multiple surgeries or PT. The person to whom you responded sounds young, like someone who has never seen what cancer or a bad car accident will do to a body. Let alone what walks into a county hospital.

News flash, folks: physicians in the UK and Canada still make a bit above a living wage. It's the insurers that suddenly have to compete, like when a school district finally gets its shit together and parents start wondering why they're paying $40k a year for equal or worse outcomes.

Granted plenty of Canadian plastic surgeons split to practice in the US, but that's a different (and competitive) market.

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