If like 20 million other Americans, you don’t have health insurance and you are not covered by Medicaid or Medicare, you know how much costly the medical procedures are in United States. The prices vary between different centers and you have to pay your couple of months paychecks to the health provider. This infographic shows the costs of some common surgeries, although as I know the prices are much higher in many medical centers in New York:

Source: www.medicalbillingandcoding.org

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Your brain by the numbers
Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com.




