A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check

Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by chiph on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:27PM (#20658701)

As this grows in awareness and popularity, I can see US healthcare providers lobbying to make it illegal. Which would be tough - what do you do, put heart surgeons on the no-fly list?

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Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by armandososa on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:02PM (#20658909)

We have pretty good doctors down here too, why the need to fly one form the USA other than prejudice?

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Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by eipipuz on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:14PM (#20658971)

As the article mentions, so you can sue if something goes wrong.

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Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by refurb on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:28AM (#20660162)

My mother’s friend did medical tourism and it went horribly wrong. When she got back home, local doctors were like “i’m not dealing with that problem because I didn’t cause it”.

The continuity of care is way better if you can keep the same doc once you get home.

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Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by elliekelly on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:52PM (#20658852)

States could decide to take away their medical licenses. I would hope politicians would choose to fix their mess of a system rather than punish doctors but perhaps that's overly optimistic of me.

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Re:A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check by bro25 on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:53PM (#20659850)

A politican will have a choice: a 50 M bribe from healthcare mafia or being the good guy for a few weeks until his name is forgotten.

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