US Healthcare Is So Screwed I Fly to Britain for My Medication

Re:US Healthcare Is So Screwed I Fly to Britain for My Medic... by zaroth on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:40PM (#9035170)

"It was the best medical service I've ever experienced in my life. I would be very happy if U.S. medical care was the same as Mexican medical care."

What you are actually saying is you would be very happy if U.S. medical care was the same as Mexican medical care for tourists carrying US dollars.

The real question is, what is the standard of care for a 50th percentile Mexican national after their own kayaking accident? What percent of their annual discretionary spending does this incident cost them? And is the existing system improving, stable, or on the verge of collapse?

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Re:US Healthcare Is So Screwed I Fly to Britain for My Medic... by wyager on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @03:11PM (#9035402)

Well, yeah. I said "private", didn't I? And it's not like the good hospitals in Mexico rely on the bad hospitals to exist.

One would expect the average standard of care to be lower because Mexico is much poorer than the U.S.. If you took whatever the good Mexican hospitals are doing and brought it to the U.S., it would presumably be roughly as high-quality and inexpensive.

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