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1 posted on 03/08/2013 10:29:23 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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Good question. Do you have to be a citizen of that country to buy health insurance in that country? I live in San Diego. The company I work for offers Kaiser and SIMNSA. SIMNSA is a health insurance plan for healthcare in Mexico (we have a lot of employees who are bi-nationals and live across the border).SIMNSA is much cheaper because dead beats don’t get inside the hospital and there are no malpractice lawsuits. There is a new provision for SIMNSA that you must be a Mexican citizen to get that insurance. I heard that the Mexican citizenship requirement is new because of 0bamacare. Is the 0bama regime working to prevent us from getting health care outside the U.S.? There are so many bad surprises in 0bamacare.

P.S. I know the irony about citizenship requirements for health care in Mexico.


2 posted on 03/08/2013 10:40:14 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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When Obamacare is in full force you won't have much access to actual medical care here in the USA except by going offshore where all the best American doctors still practicing will be. There are already Medical insurance plans geared toward offshore medicine and paying cash is far less onerous iN Belize or Thailand then paying cash in America. The English and even Canadian doctors have blazed the trail and excellent services can be found in India and Thailand. The Caribbean countrìes have been gearing up for American medical tourists by changing their tax laws to be inviting to American doctors. Medicine here must decline in the near term and for us Medicare folks will mostly disappear- is already starting to disappear as doctors are more and moer saying things like, "there is nothing more modern medical science can do for you," when you bump up against the insurance limits placed on the doctors by the government.

As doctors leave or get out of the profession the standards for that MD will decline and nurses will be promoted to do the things doctors normally do. After a time medicine will be like Soviet medicine thirty years ago i.e. a trade like any other trade. The best brains will no longer go into it. It doesn't really need brains anymore with non medical bureaucratic offices deciding on treatments and medicines permissible, and whether they are permissible.

3 posted on 03/08/2013 10:45:11 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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O’Care wont effect you in a foreign country, you cant get Medicare or other government health care programs (with the exception of Tricare for military retirees) in foreign countries... so you are not getting Obamacare there either. Expats always have been pretty much on their own health care wise...
5 posted on 03/08/2013 11:04:06 AM PST by montanajoe
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As a foreign worker here I have acess to over 60 healthcare insurance companies.


6 posted on 03/08/2013 12:20:33 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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I have a private company for my insurance,mainly for catastrophic care or treatment not available here, or if I need medical care visiting the USA. It is a version for expats, missionaries etc. who work overseas. $500 a month with a huge deductable.

When I reapplied, I was told I would be assigned a policy with “maternity care” but I could “opt out” of it. Even opting out, my premiums went up 100 dollars a month. But I don’t know if the increase is Obama care, or because the policy changed company, or because I am now 65...

No, I don’t have Medicare yet: They won’t pay the bills here in the Philippines. We use Phil Health for that.


7 posted on 03/09/2013 6:57:25 PM PST by LadyDoc
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I am not clear on your question. Are you asking about coverage in a foreign land? If here, well, depends on you individual circumstances... your age and health, employment status, financial resources, risk tolerance, etc. I gladly pay cash for medical care which is minimal, maybe two or three visits per year, with a major medical policy. Been this way for years during my self-employment. Find a good Internist attached to highly regarded hospital is what I recommend. When Osamacare care kicks in I will pay a fine and move along. Nothing onerous or complicated about it.


9 posted on 03/09/2013 7:16:13 PM PST by Dysart
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