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

To: gg cox who wrote (39232)	2/1/2015 3:13:17 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Respond to of 42652

I have one, in regard to this: "Medical tourism means never having to say "co-pay." Or deductible, "reasonable and customary," in-network vs. out-of-network or any of the other confusing terms that make the American private insurance system so confounding.As Spurlock discovers, overseas hospitals catering to international patients offer consistent prices that make it easy to comparison shop. Paying the bill is about as simple as checking out of a hotel." ========== That's the way it was here in June, 1965, before Medicare/Medicaid. Could be coincidence. But I don't really believe in coincidence.

To: gg cox who wrote (39232)	2/3/2015 8:45:19 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	2 Recommendations Recommended By gg cox Peter Dierks Respond to of 42652

I've been using the dental services in Costa Rica for the past four years. I had some fairly major items to fix and I got it done down there for less than half the price I would have paid here. I also visited a orthopedic surgeon down there at their top hospital(hospital Cima) and got a consultation to remove bunions and clean out my arthritic big toe joint on the same foot. The whole ball of wax would have cost $4,500, which was a bit too rich for me after having all the dental stuff done. Not sure what the bunionectomy would the have cost up here in Austin, but you can bet at least double, if not triple. The dental experience was simply so much better than it would have been up here, not to mention the price. They have a different attitude towards patients down there. Had I been a bit more adventurous I would have gone to Nicaragua. From talking to US citizens who have gotten dental work there, it is half the price of Costa Rica. And I imagine Panama would cost somewhere between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. I also heard that a billionaire donated enough money to build a first class hospital in Nicaragua - probably in the capital, Managua. One word of advice that I've not heard before but which makes sense is if you are contemplating getting medical or dental work done in a developing country, call the US embassy in that country and ask which medical/dental places are authorized to take embassy personnel as patients. That way you virtually eliminate the bad actors as I can only imagine that the embassy vets these people fairly well. GG