Why don’t these physicians get together, buy a new or used cruise ship and station it XXX miles offshore and see patients there?
In process.
Upscale clinics just over the Mexican border. Same thing.
“Why don’t these physicians get together, buy a new or used cruise ship and station it XXX miles offshore and see patients there?”
Once we get to single payer government run healthcare it is very the free market will provide hospital cruising off the coasts of the US within a quick helicopter flight of shore. The wealthy will opt for high quality private care instead of the British style socialized healthcare coming to this country.
For those with enough disposable income to spend for healthcare above our forced contribution to government healthcare, there will be private health care insurance available to pay for annual physicals, surgery, and other care at the floating hospital. The situation will be similar to education today where upper middle class and wealthy parents pay to send their children to private school instead of the government indoctrination centers provided by the taxpayers.
Some people in IT were considering that in CA awhile back, I don’t know what became of the idea. Maybe they just moved to TX.
Wondering if Indian Reservations will pick up the slack and set up medical sanctuaries (Of course there are profits to be had).
Could they lease land from Indian Reservations and open up there?