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Last year my 1 year old baby had an accident in Germany. She fell off of a bed. I took her to an ER and after the examination I paid approx. 100€ = ~100usd. I assume in USA I would have paid 10kUSD or more..

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$10K? That's ridiculous, I really wouldn't expect any kind of trauma visit to be that cheap, the ambulance ride alone could be over $2000 and the hospital could charge a "trauma activation" fee of $5,000 - $15,000 which doesn't include any treatment at all, that's just the price to have access to the ER facilities.

But what is the per person cost of health care paid annually by the tax payer?

That seems like an important number to know.

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