USofAmericans opting for Mexican Heath Care
repo
Augusst 2009
Dorthea, 72, a retired bank teller, lives in Harlingen, Texas, a city
of about 67,000 in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. Like a lot of
Texans, she's crossed the border to Mexico a few times to buy cheap
medication. But she'd never considered undergoing complicated medical
procedures there—at least, not until she was quoted the prohibitive
price of $30,000 for a gastric-band procedure, a treatment for obesity
in which a band is placed around the stomach to limit food intake.
It wasn't covered by her insurance, Medical tourism, which used to be
mainly for elective surgery is becoming an increasingly viable source
of more basic health care for some of those sidelined by the insurance
system in America, where 47 million people are uninsured and many
millions are underinsured.
Now, Americans like Dorthea who live along the Mexican border are
driving and even walking south in search of treatment that can cost
half or less of what it does in the United States. In response,
American hospital chains are starting to buy into Mexico; Dallas-based
CHRISTUS Health has built six hospitals in Mexico, including the
Reynosa facility Dorthea visited, through its partnership with a
Mexican chain.
Metspitzer
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Yeah. I hear you can get discount laser surgery too.
Good luck
Grand Mal
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>>http://www.newsweek.com/id/169827
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>>Augusst 2009
>>Dorthea, 72, a retired bank teller, lives in Harlingen, Texas, a city
>>of about 67,000 in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. Like a lot of
>>Texans, she's crossed the border to Mexico a few times to buy cheap
>>medication. But she'd never considered undergoing complicated medical
>>price of $30,000 for a gastric-band procedure, a treatment for obesity
>>in which a band is placed around the stomach to limit food intake.
>>
>>It wasn't covered by her insurance, Medical tourism, which used to be
>>mainly for elective surgery is becoming an increasingly viable source
>>of more basic health care for some of those sidelined by the insurance
>>system in America, where 47 million people are uninsured and many
>>millions are underinsured.
>>
>>Now, Americans like Dorthea who live along the Mexican border are
>>driving and even walking south in search of treatment that can cost
>>half or less of what it does in the United States. In response,
>>American hospital chains are starting to buy into Mexico; Dallas-based
>>CHRISTUS Health has built six hospitals in Mexico, including the
>>Reynosa facility Dorthea visited, through its partnership with a
>>Mexican chain.
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> Yeah. I hear you can get discount laser surgery too.
>
> Good luck
A lot of people are going to India for surgical procedures, too.
'Course, racists will tell you that Mexican and Indian universities teach
substandard medicine and that Mexican and Indian doctors are somehow second
or third rate and that the US needs to circle the wagons and try to be
entirely self-sufficient.
That's the Democratic viewpoint. That's the downside of Obama's election
from a Canadian point of view. Obama has already made protectionist moves
consistant with Democratic history. There's a period of complicated
navel-gazing ahead for American conservatives.
repo
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Dental care in Mexico also has been a favorite place for USofAmericans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-savage/thousands-of-americans-mo_b_274029.html
Metspitzer
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>On Sep 19, 4:36�pm, "Grand Mal" <ironw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I hear kidnapping is also popular.
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in the USA...If
that insurance coverage pays for their medical bills here in the USA,
Mexico pays the cost for it's citizens here, and takes the burden off of
the USA tax payers.
D. Stussy
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Mexico will never pay for the CRIMINALS it has sent here.