Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I think it's more or less free in Russia, from what I've read here and elsewhere. Standard is OK, but could be improved. Don't know about Ukraine, but in Belarus it's essentially free, including the meds. Standard is not gold plated but decent.
I agree that everyone's life is worth the same. But did you ever wonder why hundreds if not thousands of citizens of those countries try to collect amounts like hundreds of thousands of $ and go to a clinic somewhere else, should anything serious happen to them? Because the healthcare system there is terrible! It can treat cases like cold or flu, or some emergency cases, but if it comes to a complex surgery, that's it. If someone needed a heart transplant surgery like the one Deb described, they wouldn't do it there for either $500K or $4M. That would just be technically impossible. You can say the healthcare system in the U.S. needs a lot of improvements, but please, don't bring it down to the CIS area level.