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I have a friend from the Czech Republic who goes back home for her medical and dental care because she is self employed and can’t afford health insurance, and a Polish couple who do the same.

We’ve heard a lot about Canadians coming to the US for medical care, I wonder how many Americans seek health care services outside the US?

I used to go into Mexico when I lived close to the border for different medical things. I can’t fly for 14 hours. I’ve had back surgery and the pain would be unbearable, but for those who can that’s an option.

First, a little story.
My wife and I are in our early 60’s and self employed.
We pay for health insurance out of our own pockets. We do not receive any employer contributions to our health care like most Americans who get a paycheck nor do we get taxpayer subsidized healthcare like our dear California Congressmen McClintock who is lucky enough to be federal employees and enjoy wonderful health benefits.

At our age, our health insurance company , Blue Shield would be charging us $1500-$2000 a month for coverage…if we could afford that.

Since we can’t ….we opted for the cheapest option available to us at our age….a catastrophic healthcare option with a $10,000 deductible. So in essence we pay for all our own doctor visits, prescriptions, dental cleanings…up to $10,000 per person per year. Only after we’ve paid out $10,000 will our insurance company’s benefits start to kick in.
Monthly cost for that lousy plan….$900 a month!!

I would call a healthcare plan like that…pretty crummy.

So what have we been doing to get healthcare we can afford??

Well, for the last 4 years we’ve been hoping on a flight to Thailand every November where we take care of all our aches and pains, dental work and physicals….for about 1/10th the cost of what we would pay for the same medical services in the good old USA.

That’s right. $2500 worth of physicals…ultra sounds, blood tests, ekg’s, stress tests, bone density scans, mammograms…for $300. An $2500 operation for dysphasia…for $100. $100 Dental cleanings… for $20…by a real dentist and assistant, not a dental hygenist.

The flight is 14 hours and costs $900 roundtrip …but the savings are so huge and the service so great that even after the airfare…we come out way ahead.

The US healthcare system is broken. But Americans need not become victims.
Foreign countries offer excellent medical care for a fraction of the cost.

In fact, if more people would opt to have their healthcare needs taken care of in Mexico, India or Thailand, it would go a long way to introducing more competition in the US healthcare market.

What is even more amazing is that Thailand has a public healthcare system that even American’s can use.
I now have a medical card to Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok and I used my US passport as ID.

I no longer have to worry about outrageous medical bills and insurance premiums in America.

See the YouTube video I did on the subject
http://www.youtube.com