Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "Australians Guess American Medical Costs - American Reacts" video.

As an example for "Ventolin" inhalers - last time I bought one at a chemist it cost $5.65 (generic Asmol). Paying hundreds of dollars for this is a joke, but then again EpiPens were like that too. I think they're down under $100 now here in Australia but I remember them being $2-300. On the antivenom, for human patients in Australia it's free but pets are not covered by PBS so you pay the full Australian price. The cost of an antivenom treatment, overnight stay, drip and procedure at the Vet is about $3000 for a small or medium dog. A larger dog or badly envenomated dog needing multiple shots of antivenom might jump up to about $5000. So figures of $30-40k for a human to be treated in the US are actually believable. Of course, the risk of getting bitten by a snake venomous enough to need it in large volumes in Australia is far far higher.
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@trueaussie9230 The reference to animal medical prices is that most of the pharmaceuticals that are used to treat most companion animals are the same because the differences in biology between humans and most pets are small. Cats, dogs, horses are all mammals and thus the medicines used to treat your beloved pet are usually the exact same one as those used to treat the same condition as in humans. But, since pretty much everything we buy at a chemist to treat humans is subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) we never see the true cost of those medical treatments. Comparison of subsidised PBS prices to US prices is kind of pointless for this reason. However, the Vet prices are NOT through PBS and thus not subsidised so a more accurate comparison to the American Health System.
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