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Mexico isn’t charging anything- it’s the individual providers setting up shop in a border town to cater to American patients. They can and do charge more but c

• AnthonyMouse 8y ago
  I don't know enough about the healthcare system in Mexico to tell you exactly why the prices are lower there, but it's likely to be one of two things. One is they have some kind of government funding or other subsidies for healthcare providers there, in which case they should look for a way to direct their funding to their own population and not rich foreigners looking for lower prices. The other is that the regulatory environment in the US creates unnecessary costs that don't exist in Mexico and people are naturally taking advantage of the lower overhead. That actually seems pretty plausible given what the regulations look like in the US. But in that case Mexico doesn't need to do anything and everyone who can should try to get their healthcare in Mexico, until such time as the US providers lose so much business that they actually lobby for something to be done about the wasteful regulatory overhead in the US which is making them uncompetitive.