I had three visits with a cardiologist, a visit to an oncologist and two visits to an eye doctor. Costs for ALL three visits except new glasses & prescriptions - $651 USD (1.3M pesos equiv at the time.)
Their cost are WAY lower proportionally than here in the USA in spite of their national health care system AND the general population are not laden with two legged tattooed fatty fat fatty pork pies.
Why you ask?
1. No welfare
2. No EBT
3. No Section 8
4. No government freebies to generations of couch potatoes breeding generations of couch potatoes. Everybody works and takes care of their own family.
5. Neighborhood clinics for triage....you cannot bring your five snot-nosed brats into an emergency room because one has a cold. Excepting the current border issues with Venezuela, outsiders were very restricted in their stays in-country.
6. They don't have 70% of the world's lawyers looking to sue someone.
7. It is your responsibility that you take care of you & yours .....not the government.
8. No free phones and the myriad of other gimmeedat bling.
My last MRI in Japan cost me $35.