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The sort of people who can set aside a couple tens of thousands of dollars are also the sort of people who probably have good health insurance through their job
by rsynnott 1y ago
The sort of people who can set aside a couple tens of thousands of dollars are also the sort of people who probably have good health insurance through their job. Generally, the US's healthcare problems _mostly_ impact low to middle income people, and they usually can't just magic up 30k or so.
- seidleroni 1y ago100%. I have known a couple of people that did some form of "medical tourism", mostly for expensive dental work. In both cases they did some form of tech contract work as a sole proprietorship and bought their own health insurance (not through a partner). The overlap of people who can save up thousands of dollars for treatment abroad and have poor health insurance is probably not too large.
- ethbr1 1y agoI know it's popular with the US transgender community, looking for gender reassignment surgery. Cost of travel to Thailand < savings on medical procedures (with equivalent or better outcomes)