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Obviously it goes without saying, shop around. Fly to another country if you have to. Canadian/Mexican doctors are more than happy to take cash and will often c
by wpdev_63 7y ago
Obviously it goes without saying, shop around. Fly to another country if you have to. Canadian/Mexican doctors are more than happy to take cash and will often charge less than half what they charge here. Obviously there's medical problems you can't travel for but more often than not you can.
Also note that hospitals is one of the very few businesses that you have to get permission from other hospitals to open. It's a cartel.
- XorNot 7y agoIf this were as viable as you are implying, then everyone would do it already.
- keiferski 7y agoHonestly, in my experience, most Americans are simply unaware of viable alternatives. America is a sort of universe-unto-itself, where it's possible to live your entire life without knowing much about the outside world. I imagine China is fairly similar.
- fzeroracer 7y agoFlying to another country implies you have the money to front a ticket to another country, that you've had the foresight to get a passport to go to mexico (I guarantee if you asked many poor people if they had one, they'd say no) and that you can actually take time off to do said medical tourism. For a lot of people? A few days off means they lose their job and everything else. So they work through the pain or the illness until it becomes a severe medical emergency.