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I read something about the US is difficult to be tested in - if you want a test it'll cost a thousand (or whatever) dollars, then if it's positive you get quarantined at a cost of thousands of dollars per night.
I don't know how much of that is true - do they have a public health care that would cover the cost and testing?
christianSpaceman-
Trump fired their emergency healthcare team and didn't hire replacements. Then rather then buy testing kits that already exist they decided to make their own, which turned out to be faulty.
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In the US you can't (or couldn't, might be changing) be tested if you haven't travelled to an at risk country, and it'll cost (before health insurance) over $3,000 to be tested.
Either the death rate in the US is very high compared to South Korea, or the infection rate in the US is under-reported.
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I read something about the US is difficult to be tested in - if you want a test it'll cost a thousand (or whatever) dollars, then if it's positive you get quarantined at a cost of thousands of dollars per night.
I don't know how much of that is true - do they have a public health care that would cover the cost and testing?
That is basically how their healthcare works out there. No insurance, no care. You'll get to a hospital and they start asking questions about your insurance, which ringfences the level of care you can get. Every nurse, doctor or consultant you speak to has their own charge for that bit of time which is added to the bill, then porterage charges, consumables etc etc. So yeah, if your circumstances are that you don't have insurance to cover it and you won't be able to pay for it yourself, you can't go to hospital or you'll get a bill that will land you in court and then prison when you can't pay it.
Sumo
Dammit
Jonny69
The US seems to be getting in a bit of a hole, ~750 cases with only 1,500~ tests having been taken.