TTT - // AH: "Personally, I would not equate health care provided in a foreign country being expensive, which it will be by default, as being 'barbarous' - that's economics, not culture. " - ...and barbaric, end of. //
If you think that another country that charges for its medical services to its residents means it is callsed as 'barbaric', then you have a very loose, and potentially uninformed notion of what the term 'barbaric' actually means.
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barbaric
[ bahr-bar-ik ]SHOW IPA
adjective
without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive:
barbaric invaders.
of, like, or befitting barbarians:
a barbaric empire; barbaric practices.
crudely rich or splendid:
barbaric decorations.