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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2393)	10/27/2007 12:45:18 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<What's becoming hard to imagine is someone actually addressing the question I posed. Why might someone go abroad for cheaper health care abroad when their insurer is picking up the tab? >> With a population of over 300 million, there will always be some odd set of circumstances that would compel someone with full medical insurance and or are in some donut like situation where there is a hole in their coverage to go overseas for cheaper or alternative health care. But, with 47 million people uninsured, there is a huge market for cheaper health care.

To: Lane3 who wrote (2393)	10/27/2007 3:16:30 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

There have been some pilot programs in the US where companies incentivize their employees to go overseas for procedures that would be covered (at higher cost) in the states. Elective orthopedic procedure (joint replacement) and possibly even elective cardiac procedures). They certainly save costs on the front end, but the real problem is who deals with complications if/when they occur after the patient returns to the US? Few surgeons (understandibly) want to clean up someone else's mess and continuity of care becomes a real issue.