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This book is mostly relevant in the US. I live in a third world country and some of the things that are normal in the US are considered royalty to us and our expectations from the healthcare system are way lower than in developed countries.
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Different countries would have different healthcare practices, so there are some things that are useful to the US residents in particular. But the basic practices are not much different, so people from the whole world can relate and learn a lot of things in the book.
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While some aspects of the book are only relevant in the US, everyone can benefit from the book. I particularly love her spend thrift attitude which I observed when she wrote about the value of a PCP
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There's no much difference between the US and my home country's health system. In my country one has to pay for each and every medical services offered. Except a few which are , maternal healthcare e.t.c. So the book was a fit for me.
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Although this book might be more useful to someone living in the US (since it's written from that perspective) I do think there may be some aspects that someone outside of the US might find useful
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Sushan wrote: 31 May 2021, 23:52 The author is a US based doctor and her book is based on US healthcare system. Is this book only useful for US residents or is it applicable universally? What are the controversial or unusual points that you noticed comparatively to your own experience on your healthcare system?

For an example, in my country, each and every citizen is entitled for '100% free of charge' healthcare facilities. There are few lacking areas because everything has to be provided by the government. But there is no need to have a health insurance to get hospitalised or no need to go through a primary healthcare practitioner to reach a speciality. But if anyone wants, there are plenty of options in the private sector as well.
As an Argentinian, I can see that there are several differences with the North American health system. For example, besides the differences in the economic cost of different procedures, Argentinians get their prescriptions and are their medications without any restrictions or identification whatsoever.Therefore, there are things that might confuse citizens from different countries.
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The book has been written by a US-based doctor. The examples used are widely related to many other countries. Though few aspects seem to vary in other countries. In my opinion, health care and health insurance should be seriously analyzed by an individual, and they should make a decision that suits them.
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The book mostly focuses on the US healthcare system. While some of this advice is not relevant to people having access to free healthcare facilities, many of them like choosing the right insurance and minimizing your expenses are useful for almost everyone.
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I think this book is also relevant to non-US citizens in a way to compare healthcare systems in other countries. To me, the book helped open my eyes to the reality that not everything in the USA is free or discounted. When I was younger, I was led to believe that every US citizen can readily avail of them.
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It is challenging to write a book like this that applies to all countries. I agree with some friends here who said that many points might be applicable outside of the USA. In any case, it is much easier for a small, wealthy country like Sweden to offer universal health care than a country like the US. In theory, I live in a country that provides free healthcare to anyone, but many complain about the waiting time. Anyway, there are reports of people born here who are millionaires living in the US and who came back to the country just to have surgery here.
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Sushan wrote: 31 May 2021, 23:52 The author is a US based doctor and her book is based on US healthcare system. Is this book only useful for US residents or is it applicable universally? What are the controversial or unusual points that you noticed comparatively to your own experience on your healthcare system?

For an example, in my country, each and every citizen is entitled for '100% free of charge' healthcare facilities. There are few lacking areas because everything has to be provided by the government. But there is no need to have a health insurance to get hospitalised or no need to go through a primary healthcare practitioner to reach a speciality. But if anyone wants, there are plenty of options in the private sector as well.
I was wondering the same thing, as my family members in Europe and in Canada have a much different approach to their medical care. They are puzzled by the availability of private care, the choices we have here, and the freedom we have to see and choose specialists we like...just a different way of thinking, so I think it definitely has a slant towards a US-based audience.
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Though the author focused on the American health care system in his book where health insurance schemes look perfect. However, readers from Africa, and most especially in the part I am from now understand the importance and the benefits of health insurance schemes which often help cushion the effect of medical bills in times of serious health challenges like the one the author discussed.
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The author is from US and the book was based on US, I think tge book is still suitable in other countries. I'm not from US but I still found this book informative and suitable for my country. Well, that's just based on my opinions.
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Post by Susan Kihleng »

I would think that most countries have a very different healthcare system than the US. However, I do think that this book can still be useful to those residing outside of the US, as in my case, in the country where I live, for serious illnesses and surgeries, patients are often sent to the US for medical treatment and having a more in depth knowledge of how the US system works can be helpful for situations such as those. Years ago my youngest daughter was sent to the US for medical care and I believe this book would have been useful to our family during that time as we had to navigate how the system worked. Honestly, more than ten years later, our family is still dealing with financial fallout from that period of our lives.
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Post by Eddy E »

Well to be honest, it doesn't apply to every country.
The concept oh health care system is relevant, in my country particularly, people rarely use health care insurance, atleast that I am aware of. Most times people just go to the hospital when their sick and pay there. With the countries economy I doubt health care is even affordable to the average citizen let alone free.
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