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Originally Posted by Robbie
I googled a lot of this up a couple of years back. Not only Mexico. EVERY country in the world is drastically cheaper for medical procedures than the U.S.
Google up medical tourism in India. You'll see the prices and shit yourself. And those guys are in many ways ahead of us technologically and medically.
Also from what I've read...many, many stars in Hollywood and other assorted millionaire jet setting types all go down to South America for their plastic surgery (Brazil for instance) because it's 10 times cheaper and the plastic surgeons are more advanced.
For instance breast implants...doctors in Brazil are the masters of the "gummy bear" silicone implant that is still under "study" by the U.S., it's the safest one out there because it's a solid implant that can't rupture or leak. It was allowed in the U.S. for a year or two to "study". Meanwhile the surgeons in Brazil have been doing it for women around the world for almost two decades. That is just one example of how far behind we are. A superior procedure done by skilled surgeons at half the price that U.S. doctors do it using an outdated procedure.
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Well that's the other half of it - given malpractice lawsuits are rampant here, docs/hospitals charge an arm and a leg for stuff. So yea, things will be more expensive here than in most places. The first half of it though is that everything is cheaper in Mexico, not just health care, and there are a number of reasons for it.
Bottom line - with the economy being the way it is, you'd see a lot more people from the US going to live in Mexico if it was so great. I mean a lot of people in the US could live like kings there, right? But no - it's a fucking shithole which to people in the US is there to take advantage of for cheap prescription drugs/healthcare/labor/etc. On the other hand, where I live it is expensive to live, which in turn makes just about everything here more expensive. Reason? Because it's a very desirable place to live (speaking of San Diego of course, not all of US).
There's still ways to save money or reduce costs of things and whatnot, and I'm sure health care is one of them, but to assume we could pay about $22/mo for our health care if there was a public option would be absolutely ridiculous.