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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Yes, I find it sad that people living in the wealthiest country in the world often have to go to some of the poorest countries to get medical care.
Medical Vacations, as it is now called is a very fast growing industry, and many insurance companies will now pay for the trip and the treatment in a foreign country because it saves them money over paying for the same treatment here.
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The cost of supplies and equipment is the same but the doctors and dentists in those countries not having to worry about carrying the enormous cost of US malpractice insurance is a major factor. Tort reform anyone???
On another note I had a gardener from Guadalajara, Mexico for over 20 years when I resided in Newport Beach, CA. He was a naturalized US citizen. Over those years he and I grew to know each other very well and and discussed many of our serious life decisions among other things. I regarded him as a very smart and wise man. One day he asked me about how much a crown would cost and what dentist would I recommend. I asked him why he did not get that done when he visited his family in Mexico. His response was he did not trust dentists in Mexico. They cheat on materials and so on. He would rather pay two or three times the Mexican cost in the US! He was adamant about that and had it done in the US.