It's shocking how cheap the health care is in Japan

A reader claims I'm not being honest about the cost of medical services in Japan.

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[uekibachi]

hi baby. i live in japan too and i love goin to the doctor.

[harr7959]

@CrowdPleeza

You are correct, the Japanese system is NOT perfect. However, average waite times are not extremely long. I have never waited more than 30 minutes, and I have also never made an appointment! I am also able to go direcly to a specialist, which saves me a lot of money and time.

But lets say you are right, would you rather live in a country where nobody dies for lack of healthcare but has to wait every once and a while, or a country where 44,000 people die every year?

[Mamakayi]

Many Japanese hospitals are making bankrupcy I´ve heard!

[SamuraiTogo]

★The most advanced medical treatment in the world is received in Japan by the lowest price in the world.

This is true.

[kyotofukyotosi]

I live in Canada. I needed Pelvic Ultrasound done but my Canadian dr. said my ultrasound is scheduled 2 month later. I called private practice in Canada and they said waiting time is 2 wks and costs $600. I called Japanese gynaecology clinic. They say it costs $50 (5000yen) w/o insurance and no appointment necessary!!!

[naturalthing1]

You socialist bitch, get out of my country..leaching off my tax money.

[AmaruRuna]

I am 100% agree with the opinions of the lady, the healthcare there, especially DENTAL is very cheap here in Japan

[CrowdPleeza]

Google: PBS frontline sick around the world.

Check the Japan section.

50% of Japan's hospitals are having deficit problems related to those artifically low medical prices. They can't properly balance their books with those prices. Japanese emergency rooms are turning people away. One reason is because some are being overcrowded by people with small medical problems taking advantage of those cheap prices.

[aviomaster]

---PEOPLE in USA have been shot with PROPAGANDA from Goverment owned private media .... GOD BLESS JAPAN .... SOON USA is going down and their IMPERIALISTIC WAYS .... of LOOKING at the WORLD ...