Anything more than that for instance, triple-bypass surgery is paid for by Medtronic's catastrophic health insurance.

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For bigger healthcare expenditures, such as major surgery and hospitalizations, a catastrophic health insurance policy could be purchased that would reimburse once costs reached a predetermined threshold.

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Health care savings accounts plus government run catastrophic health care insurance.

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