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I don’t know about Korea, but I know I can save money and time by flying to Thailand and going to their top medical tourism hospital. Insurance pays for part of

I don’t know about Korea, but I know I can save money and time by flying to Thailand and going to their top medical tourism hospital. Insurance pays for part of it, but even if not the out of pocket is less than my deductible if I just pay directly. Everything is done immediately on a walk in basis, start to finish. If I need to stay the night they even have a hotel in the hospital. If you need extended treatment they have agreements with luxury hotels to provide nursing etc and the cost is less than a normal hotel in a major American city or a nice hotel in a second/third tier city. The medical system in America is broken. The best care is possible here, but it requires extraordinary measures to get it. For 99.9% of care it’s below third world.

latchkey 4y ago
Vietnam also had some good hospitals. Their lasik treatments are top notch, latest equipment, and cheap. I've had great dental work done in Saigon. Friend of mine just got dental done in Puerto Vallarta because their dentist in Berkeley kept screwing it up, wanting more and more money.
theshrike79 4y ago
There was a video about a dude getting a hair transplant (got bald at 25). It was cheaper to take a week off work, fly to Turkey with the whole family, stay for a week in a five star hotel and get the treatments in a hospital than it was to do the same operation in the US. The package covered even limo rides from the airport to the hotel and hospital =)
MichaelZuo 4y ago
The exact same care is available in the U.S. for approximately the same price as Thailand, after adjusted for local cost of living.
- giardini 4y ago
  Sorry, I've already survived once lying in a ditch getting IV fluid from a coconut while bleeding out and waiting for the morphine to cut in. Does Thailand have real doctors now? I always put them up there with Cambodia, North Korea, Burma(Myanmar), and Hell, known for their abundance of primarily alcoholic or drug-addicted western doctors who fled their native countries to avoid criminal charges. But I ramble...
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    Thailand is extraordinarily developed, along the lines of South Korea. Your experience must be quite dated. The doctors in Thailand are often western trained, but are top of their fields globally. The education system in Thailand is excellent and universal, the economy is vibrant, and the infrastructure is well developed including high speed rail etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/

latchkey 4y ago

Vietnam also had some good hospitals. Their lasik treatments are top notch, latest equipment, and cheap. I've had great dental work done in Saigon. Friend of mine just got dental done in Puerto Vallarta because their dentist in Berkeley kept screwing it up, wanting more and more money.

theshrike79 4y ago

There was a video about a dude getting a hair transplant (got bald at 25). It was cheaper to take a week off work, fly to Turkey with the whole family, stay for a week in a five star hotel and get the treatments in a hospital than it was to do the same operation in the US. The package covered even limo rides from the airport to the hotel and hospital =)

MichaelZuo 4y ago

The exact same care is available in the U.S. for approximately the same price as Thailand, after adjusted for local cost of living.

giardini 4y ago
Sorry, I've already survived once lying in a ditch getting IV fluid from a coconut while bleeding out and waiting for the morphine to cut in. Does Thailand have real doctors now? I always put them up there with Cambodia, North Korea, Burma(Myanmar), and Hell, known for their abundance of primarily alcoholic or drug-addicted western doctors who fled their native countries to avoid criminal charges. But I ramble...
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Thailand is extraordinarily developed, along the lines of South Korea. Your experience must be quite dated. The doctors in Thailand are often western trained, but are top of their fields globally. The education system in Thailand is excellent and universal, the economy is vibrant, and the infrastructure is well developed including high speed rail etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/