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I Learned Firsthand How Insane the American Healthcare System Is

I Learned Firsthand How Insane the American Healthcare System Is

The way we pay for healthcare in this country is thoroughly absurd.

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Two weeks ago, I left America for the first time. After living almost my entire life in sunny Los Angeles and palm-tree-laden Orlando, I wanted to see something different. I see my friends take vacations all the time. They go to Mexico or Panama.

While Cancun and Panama are beautiful destinations, they resemble home a little too much. Why would I trade palm trees and sunny beaches for more palm trees and sunny beaches?

I rest my case.

On the cusp of winter, I decided to take a trip to Iceland.

The days would be short, just a few hours, and the nights would be long and cold. Just what I wanted.

Please take me to the coldest, darkest, glacier-and-geyser-filled island the world offers. Let me experience the opposite of my entire life.

My girlfriend and I booked our tickets. It’s the busy season for me back home, so she went on to a few other countries after we enjoyed our three days in the tiny nation to the north.

We did the tourist thing: we booked a norther…

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