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Gives me an idea. If I was rich and wanted to fix the healthcare system, I might look into charters plane flights/accomodations and find the most lucrative medi

Gives me an idea. If I was rich and wanted to fix the healthcare system, I might look into charters plane flights/accomodations and find the most lucrative medical procedures and offer people a better way overseas. We count on people being the adversarial counterweight in the US but they don't really have the means to truly be that anymore. I bet it wouldn't take a whole lot of enabling people power to destabilize the current medical system. What industries could people take power back in this way?

rickydroll 9mo ago
Look up medical tourism. It's a thing already. The value-add would be vetting the medical practitioners. You go to your doctor because you trust them to do the right job. You go to a doctor in a foreign country, and it feels much more dodgy. Medical tourism groups may already do this; I haven't investigated it. I toyed with the idea when I needed a couple of crowns. A friend of mine in Estonia and I worked out that two crowns is the break-even point for traveling to Estonia and seeing his dentist.