I've lived for many years each in the UK, Australia and the US. I've worked as a healthcare provider for many years in the US.

I would dearly love to know what "costs" of healthcare you are looking at when you say the US is preferable enough to actually move to/be in/stay in the US.

Because when I can have higher end insurance from my employer, and still be out $9K for a kidney stone after insurance, I'm not seeing it. That is an outlier, for me, I'll acknowledge, but it's still nearly five digits that had to come out of my pocket after my employer paid thousands, I paid premiums, for insurance (that is insurance-in-name-only).

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jasonlotito a day ago | parent [-]

> I would dearly love to know what "costs" of healthcare you are looking at when you say the US is preferable enough to actually move to/be in/stay in the US.

Autism care for children. I'm looking at $15-30k a year for a service such as speech therapy. Minimum of 6-month wait time.

US? Free. Wait time? Immediate (not hyperbole).

We routinely keep track of this. It has not improved at all.

	▲	FireBeyond 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As someone with friends who have children with autism and complex support needs, knowing their challenges, I would say that's a great thing - but definitely varies from region to region. Finding a speech therapist for one's largely non-verbal 14 year old son has been challenging - although I'm going to a party today to celebrate his older sister's graduation from university, now a speech therapist.