[midasuni]

There are 200+ healthcare systems in the world.

Are there any nearly as insane as America’s?

[peyton]

Vietnam’s is pretty nuts if you want to do some deep reading.

[Hnrobert42]

My experience with it has been decent, but I am an expat with Western money.

For some stuff like a rabies shot or my girlfriend’s oral surgery, we used the public system. It was cheap and and reasonably efficient.

For everything else, we used a private hospital. It was also cheap, and the quality was comparable to the US. E.g., under $500 total for an endoscopy, a sonogram, doctor’s visits, etc. to diagnose and treat a stomach ulcer.

All of that was in the last 3 years in Ho Chi Minh City.

Now, there certainly are some squalid hospitals, especially in the countryside. Further, $500 is a lot of money for most VN people. Having written all this, I guess I realize all I have are some anecdotes.

[contingencies]

I had to find a hospital in Haiphong once. Memories of limping in to an emergency ward at dawn begging for painkillers only to find the beds and floors covered in the blood of the last night's patients...