Health Care Infographic Ranks L.A. As Sixth Most Expensive Place To Get Sick
Screengrab of infographic.
When the topic of U.S. healthcare enters conversation, disappointed sighs and enervated moans sound among chit-chatters. Rising healthcare costs, stabs at Planned Parenthood and the dreaded pre-existing condition exclusion plague America today, forcing citizens to burn through savings to pay for prescription drugs and other medical bills.
Bundle designed an infographic detailing "The Most & Least Expensive Cities for Health Care." Los Angeles and California are mentioned several times.
Los Angeles is the sixth most expensive city for sicklings, while Miami ranks as THE most pricey place. Of the ten least expensive places to fall ill, CentralCal's Fresno lands the ninth spot.
While L.A. did not make the top five cities with the highest health care costs per capita, we did take fourth place in cities with the highest medicare costs per capita. Our costs? $11,303.
L.A. also assumes fourth position as one of the top five cities with the highest average in-patient cost per day. Daily in-patient costs average $2,419.
California offers 343 hospitals, ranking the golden state second behind Texas in states with the most hospitals. Though we rank high in medial institutions, we did not rank at all among the top five states with the highest number of professionally active physicians or registered nurses per 10,000 people.
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