Americans fighting medical bills, in other nations, is a foreign idea

A visit to the physician in France usually costs $1.12. A patient costs about $11 for a night in a German hospital. And insurers are generally expected to take out all medical care after the first 385 euros in the Netherlands, — a nation other than the U.S. where patients are deductible. Health care has been exceptional in the United States for a long time. But few things so badly distinguish the American scheme that patients, even if ....