Re: US healthcare costs
"Natasha Richardson probably would have lived if she'd had an accident here, because doctors would have done a cat scan, and there would have been a Medevac helicopter available. That's tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars to save a single life."
$100,000 doesn't even scratch the surface!
For every Natasha Richardson that survives in the US, the resulting costs run into the millions of dollars. Closed head injured survivors, particularly those with moderate to severe closed head injuries, are a huge cost because they are young at injury, survive for many years after their injury, require specialized care and require multimodal care (ie. physical medicine, behavioral care, medication(s), {re}habilitation, etc., etc.)
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