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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 surg

• elliekelly 7y ago
  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.
  • bro25 7y ago
    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.
• armandososa 7y ago
  We have pretty good doctors down here too, why the need to fly one form the USA other than prejudice?
  • refurb 7y ago
    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.
  • eipipuz 7y ago
    As the article mentions, so you can sue if something goes wrong.