ECMO is the English abbreviation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which is a technology that represents the level of critical care in a hospital, or even a region or a country. It can play a role in partial cardiopulmonary replacement, maintain the oxygenated blood supply of human organs and tissues, and ensure the stability of patients' physical signs.

In other words, UNCLE, whose lungs were half broken, could have lasted at least 12 hours on this machine, allowing UNCLE to survive until Stephen Strange arrived—oh, they had to go to New York Central Hospital because the community hospital couldn't provide more favorable conditions for surgery.

But don't think it's so simple, life is always a matter of getting what you pay for, and there is nothing to talk about. A device that can achieve this effect costs 30,000 US dollars just to turn it on, and then consumes no less than 5,000 US dollars in maintenance costs for each natural daily cycle.

Expensive hemostatic materials, not to mention wound materials, even the plasma that is now being maintained for the massive bleeding is not cheap, no less than 300 US dollars per 400 milliliters of the pack, and a pack of it must be replaced every few minutes, which is enough for a skilled worker to work for a day's wages.

But the real big head is not here yet.

"He wants 200,000," Edward Jeannay hung up and said to Peter Parker: "Stephen Strange promised to take the operation, but he asked for 300,000 and paid for it." ”

All of the above adds up, and the final total price of the medical list given by Édouard Jeannay is indeed approaching the 500,000 mark, which is an astronomical amount in the eyes of the middle class and below in the United States.

In the United States, the average middle-class income is $50,000 to $80,000 a year, no matter how high it is.

And the Peter Parker family, like the middle class?

Not at all.

UNCLE, WHO WAS JUST AN ORDINARY PLUMBER AND NEARING RETIREMENT, CAN BE SEEN BY HIS OLD, FLUFFY COAT FOR HOW LONG IT HAD BEEN SINCE HE BOUGHT HIMSELF NEW CLOTHES, AND THERE WERE TOO MANY OF THEM IN THE UNITED STATES. What's more, due to the high price of consumption, they have no way to save at all, and they are very lucky to be able to break even every month.

When it comes to U.S. health care, many people take it for granted that the U.S. health care system has many advantages. In many people's minds, the U.S. health care system should be full of humanitarian brilliance, and anyone in the United States who is elderly, disabled, and low-income can complete medical care at a fraction of the cost, and if this is the case, then Peter Parker will not have to be so sad at this time.

In fact, the United States is currently the only developed country in the world that has not achieved universal health insurance. In the U.S., it is common for U.S. citizens to go bankrupt because of medical bills.

Because too many medical sales links have led to the high cost of drugs and the profit problem of transit, the medical costs in the United States remain high, and more than 30,000 US dollars are charged for an emergency appendix cut, not to mention this high-risk surgery.

The insurance company's reimbursement statement will always arrive at the patient's family later than the hospital bill.

"Dad......" George walked over and shook Linga's hand gently, "Is his family leaving him too?" ”

They were all at the hospital, and there was no reason to keep George in the car any longer. So in the process of following Linga, Georges also listened to Édouard Jeannay's treatment advice.

Although Georges was not very old, his understanding was not low, and he was able to understand the words of Édouard Jeannay, and he also understood that Peter Parker was unable to support the high medical bills. Peter Parker's predicament at this moment is not much better than the tragic situation George once faced, the feeling of witnessing the loss of a loved one and being unable to do anything about it.

Linga patted George's shoulder and tried to comfort her. No matter how strong George usually behaves, she is still a fourteen-year-old girl at heart, and it is natural that she will be touched by the scene.

A cheeseburger costs only three US dollars, a middle-class income earns between five and eighty thousand dollars a year, and Peter Parker sells his photos for only two hundred dollars at a time, and 500,000 US dollars is obviously too heavy for him.

"Let me help him, just in time to make up my mind to make a decision," Linga whispered, "Hmm...... Peter, lend me your phone. ”

Peter Parker was stunned for a moment, and quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Ringa.

Holding Peter Parker's mobile phone, Linga walked out, making a call as he went, but at this moment, Otis's voice suddenly burst out of the phone: "Hello, Commander. ”

Otis is able to do many unthinkable things with the help of some of the more backward components, such as the fact that he is now using the radio of the Rist to talk to his mobile phone: "I just learned through the monitoring of the medical establishment, the commander, you need funds? ”

"Yes, I need some money scheduling," Linga replied casually, "Could it be that Otis can you still enter the Federal Reserve to modify the low-level agreement and transfer money to me?" Linga said this without a trace of seriousness at all, it was just a joke, but ......

"Yes, Commander, the low-level protocols of the country's financial institutions have loopholes, as well as room for regulation, I can adjust no more than three million of the country's currency without being tracked by any signals, these are long-term non-passive assets, so they are very safe."

"Uh......" Lin Jia laughed dryly twice and said, "Lister, help me change the line, I don't need this yet...... Don't tempt me like this, help me change the line, this call is urgent. ”

"Yes, Commander," Otis said and vanished, and the phone switched back to normal calls.

At the same time, a blue, more than two meters tall blue skin, the lower body below the chest and abdomen is like smoke connected to an Arabian-style oil lamp, holding a scripture scroll in his left hand, holding a scimitar in his right hand, waving, howling something that cannot be English, nor Chinese.

Standing in front of him was a small Chinese man, with white hair, and the abrasion marks left by time on his face would not fade, but the experience given to him by the years made him fearless in the face of this strange situation in front of him.

"Drip-li-li-li!" The phone on the counter rang, and I saw that the old man ignored the scimitar he was wielding, easily passed through the scimitar knife array, picked up the phone, and said to the other end of the phone: "Hey, this is Daddy's antique shop, what's the matter?" ”

Seeing that the old man was so neglectful of himself, the strong blue man shouted, opened his mouth and spat out the fire on the scimitar, which was wrapped in raging flames, and slashed at the old man.

"Hey, dad still has something, wait for me for thirty seconds" set the phone to standby, and then put it on the desktop, the old man frowned and looked at the slashing flame scimitar, and said in his unique dry voice: "Don't burn out Daddy's things, you can't afford to pay for it~~!" ”