Posted on 05/18/2019 11:17:33 AM PDT by Steve1999
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are crossing the border into Mexico each year to receive a wide range of treatments, including medical services, dental care and cosmetic surgery, experts in what has become known as "medical tourism" say. According to Josef Woodman, the CEO of Patients Beyond Borders, an organization advocating for medical travel, as many as 800,000 to 1 million American citizens make the trip from the U.S. to Mexico for affordable treatment each year. That number, Woodman said, is a "conservative estimate" and excludes non-citizens and undocumented immigrants, of which he claims there are thousands who also make the trip to Mexico each year for treatment. The true number of Americans who travel south for treatment is difficult to estimate, he said, as medical travel is typically a private affair.
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I had my front grill redone with crowns in Mexico for about 1/3 the price in the states. The facility I went to was as good or better as any dentist I have been to here. I have had my crowns for over 10 years and not a single problem.
That said, I would not go across the border now to save my life. Way too risky.
Why didn’t he just stay in England? They’re always lauding England’s superior health care system.
Yeah! Who needs those pesky lawsuits over
botched procedures!
Also!
Medicines that are inconsistently manufactured
and non-efficacious / poisonous!
As long as they’re cheap!!
The real news would be that they are getting superior care and cured. Notice that is missing.
The Mexican border towns have websites that list all the local clinics and their specialties. From there you can link to the individual clinics' websites, where they list their offerings and their prices.
The clinics have toll-free phone numbers and English-speaking receptionists, who can make an appointment for you.
They don't take insurance, but they do take plastic, so you don't have to take cash with you. Many will send a vehicle to pick you up at the border, but most are within a block or two of the border, so it's a quick walk.
I had two root canals and crowns done at a clinic in Palomas, south of Deming NM, about twelve years ago. My total cost was about $1k. My dental insurance co-pay would have been about $3k in the US. The crowns were made in a US lab in El Paso. The Dental office's equipment was more state-of-the-art than the equipment in my Dentist's office in the US.
YMMV and it's best to get recommendations from someone you know, or at least from a US retirement newsletter
A lot of US retirees in the US SW travel across the border for dental care. Also Snowbirds, who come down from the US NW and from Canada in the Winter, also keep the clinics busy.
If you have retirement-age friends in the SW, they might be able to refer you to someone they know who has been there, to give you a personal referral.
THAT would have killed a dead man!
Any comment, Newsweek, on the number of people who come to the U.S. to use our emergency rooms free of charge for routine care?
I know of two doctors here who make it known they have no insurance and they accept only full payment at the time of service, no insurance. Their prices are much lower than those of other doctors. They stay swamped and it is very difficult to become a patient of one of them. One has a concierge practice. For major surgeries, at least one of them recommends from several offshore establishments. I have never heard a complaint.
People willing to work for a dollar an hour can provide cheaper ‘care’ - - one of the reasons Americans retire to Mexico.
But a person would have to be nuts to go to Mexico for experimental cancer treatments. Too many charlatans... cheap's expensive when the price is your life.
You’re right.
I’m having a difficult time equating $1/hr with “care”. But that’s just me.
If an older couple needs ‘in home care’ for the husband or the wife it’s cheaper to hire people in Mexico than to hire $25 an hour ‘aids’ in the United States.
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