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Originally Posted by tiger
So many of you guys are so close minded. The Mexican system is cheap and covers everyone. It's so cheap in fact if you make decent money you can pay for most stuff out of pocket with no insurance. But insurance is so cheap for 100% coverage that there is really no reason not to buy insurance. Open your mind for a second and actually take a look you might be surprised. Doctors there even routinely make house calls for follow up care. I have actually used their system and was pretty surprised myself at the quality of the care and the costs.
Also there have been a lot of articles lately talking about the large number of Americans that have been crossing the border to get medical care in Mexico, google them and read a few.
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There's the reality. WE are OVERCHARGED for every bit of medical we get...including prescription drugs.
We went to Tijuana to get CM's boobs done. And the doctors and hospitals were literally set up 100 feet from the border. The doctor we used lives in San Diego and is U.S. trained and schooled. His prices in Tijuana are less than half of what is charged just over the border here in the U.S.
That town is overflowing with Americans having medical procedures. It's a huge "medical tourism" town because of the pricing. And you just walk downstairs to the pharmacy and fill your prescription for pennies on the dollar of what we get fucked over for here in the U.S.
People should not NEED insurance except for a catastrophic occurrence.
That is the way it used to be when I was young. People actually PAID to go to the doctor out of their pockets. Nobody back then had "health insurance" that I or anyone in my extended family knew of.
Now? You can't have so much as a kidney stone removed in the U.S. without taking out a bank loan.
THAT is the problem. Price gouging. Not insurance. We shouldn't need health insurance to simply go to the doctor.