When she was still working in California, she went to Guadalajara for dental work (two tooth implants) and the cost including the round trip plane tickets was less than her insurance co-pay would have been had she done the work in California.
You know your country's health care system sucks when other countries can promote medical tourism.
Around here, the hospitals get really full from about Oct - April or so because of all the folks who migrate south from Canada for the winter. A lot of that is for elective stuff that is cheaper here than they can get it back home.
That's not the same as medical tourism, though, where the express purpose of the travel is to have medical procedures done. If those snowbirds weren't already traveling to/living in the US, and paying for an American health insurance policy, do you really think they'd come just for the elective stuff? I seriously doubt it; I know I sure wouldn't. That's not to say that there aren't problems with the Canadian system -- there are. But I've said it before, and I'll say it again... I'd rather be faced with those problems, than the problems in the US system.
*sigh*
Look at this thread. All I wanted to know was whether or not all the constitutional amendments adding rights to hunt and fish were knee-jerk reactions to something...
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