Posted on 08/08/2013 4:38:03 PM PDT by Lorianne
Indonesia is a lot cheaper than Thailand now for medical treatment. That would be the first country to check out.
I don’t believe this. Every ailment you get after 65 is from a “pre-existing” condition.
I just had my knee replaced. The hospital bill was $50k and with Medicare, and my supplement, I paid $1000. It’s just the low cost AARP supplement. My husband had a brain tumor removed 2 years ago — price tag $100k out of pocket %3000. The doctor said that he probably had had the tumor (slow growing, non malignent) for 30 years.
Sad: It used to be that others would travel to America for affordable healthcare.
Glad: He got affordable treatment outside the country.
The point this article misses is that this is exactly the way a free market is supposed to work!
The health insurance problem in this country could be fixed tomorrow, just like the Social Security problem. The Government doesn’t WANT to fix these problems.
If you can’t get a new hip then get a new hop, which is not to say, “get with the hip-hop”!
That’s not very nice, it’s a very painful and debilitating condition.
I don’t think people ever traveled to this country for “affordable” health care; they traveled to this country for timely health care (waiting lists for socialist health care at home) or very-good health care (for exceptionally difficult diseases).
This story is complete BULLSHIT! I play senior softball and my manager just underwent knee replacement two weeks ago, another guy on my team had a hip replacement last winter, another friend had knee replacement last summer, ..........I can name another dozen guys who had either their hips or knees replaced and they were ALL due to prior injuries they incurred during their softball careers..........
You can’t be hip any more in America!
You can’t be hip any more in America!
If an ordinary guy like me can experience *that* it can't be *that* difficult...or unusual.
Yep.
I imagine different insurance companies do things differently, so that could be the problem.
At age 65 he should be on Medicare if he’s living in the USA.
That’s footing the bill for 80%, right?
I guess I may have missed something. I’m older than he is, have medicare and tricare for life which paid for my hip replacement just a few months ago. Did he not have medicare etc?
I am over 65, still working, and receiving health care insurance from my employer, not Medicare. Maybe he is in the same situation.
I read the NYT text.
This happened back in 2007 so the fellow than was only 61.
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