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peaked at about $36K/year So leave USA for a while or forever, if you need to pay $3000 a MONTH for insurance. WTF? Unless you have a very, very specific dise

peaked at about $36K/year So leave USA for a while or forever, if you need to pay $3000 a MONTH for insurance. WTF? Unless you have a very, very specific disease everything will be solved in many other countries, at a lot less. By paying cash if needed.

ChuckMcM 9y ago
Its one of the options that people talk about, in particular moving to Canada. My in-laws moved to Brazil not only for lower health care costs but it was less expensive to hire in home care giving staff. That makes visits from the grandchildren and family more difficult though. Something that can be important in your later years.
- pdimitar 9y ago
  I can tell you that most Europe will fix you up for much lower rates than USA -- heard that from people in the Baltic countries, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and a few others. In my country -- Bulgaria -- I recall somebody on the news saying they pulled their US cousin in here and they got a complex multi-phase operational treatments (not good with medical English, sorry!) with 3 months of hospitalization... for a sum of money that would equal 1 week in hospital in USA plus only the first operation (out of 4-6). Medical tourism is becoming a thing here in Europe.
noonespecial 9y ago
Having to pay $3k per month for health reasons sounds like the very disaster buying health insurance was supposed to guard against. If that $3k were paying a mortgage debt, it would be servicing more than $600,000!
- tryingagainbro 9y ago
  If that $3k were paying a mortgage debt, it would be servicing more than $600,000! Sadly, $600K is nothing in healthcare costs, at least retail price. A snake bite can cost $153K https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/hospital-appears-to-charge-153000-to-treat-snakebite.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/hospital-appears-to-charge-1... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a-153k-medical-bill/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a...

ChuckMcM 9y ago

Its one of the options that people talk about, in particular moving to Canada. My in-laws moved to Brazil not only for lower health care costs but it was less expensive to hire in home care giving staff. That makes visits from the grandchildren and family more difficult though. Something that can be important in your later years.

pdimitar 9y ago
I can tell you that most Europe will fix you up for much lower rates than USA -- heard that from people in the Baltic countries, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and a few others. In my country -- Bulgaria -- I recall somebody on the news saying they pulled their US cousin in here and they got a complex multi-phase operational treatments (not good with medical English, sorry!) with 3 months of hospitalization... for a sum of money that would equal 1 week in hospital in USA plus only the first operation (out of 4-6). Medical tourism is becoming a thing here in Europe.

noonespecial 9y ago

Having to pay $3k per month for health reasons sounds like the very disaster buying health insurance was supposed to guard against. If that $3k were paying a mortgage debt, it would be servicing more than $600,000!

tryingagainbro 9y ago
If that $3k were paying a mortgage debt, it would be servicing more than $600,000! Sadly, $600K is nothing in healthcare costs, at least retail price. A snake bite can cost $153K https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/hospital-appears-to-charge-153000-to-treat-snakebite.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/hospital-appears-to-charge-1... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a-153k-medical-bill/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a...