printFREE-MARKET MEDICINE IN MEXICO. Minus the exorbitant American malpractice insurance, a state-of-the-art hip replacement in Mexico costs a tenth of the price it costs stateside. Practitioners in Mexico don’t have the liability costs their colleagues incur in U.S.
Predictably, the PBS, which does some excellent reporting, remains incurious about the free-market mechanisms that facilitate such savings. Instead, in a segment titled “Retirees Flock to Mexico for the Sun and the Health,” the network explores an imperial expansion of Medicare in Mexico.
“A group called Americans for Medicare in Mexico is lobbying Congress to amend Medicare rules to allow for health care coverage in Mexico, where medical costs are much lower.”
The Empire’s new motto: Make Welfare, And War.
As I posted earlier – amoxycillin – USA $1000 with paperwork – Mexico $ 6 off the shelf. But it isn’t just Mexico for old age care and medical – its India and other countries. The US is not the land of the free but the overpriced land of the corrupt bureaucrat – a Sweden on steroids. Interesting direction where the huddled masses have to be heading in order to breathe free.
Tort reform would certainly lower costs. Here a link to some interesting charts on the subject which I published on my blog, http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com:
Top Nine Health Care Charts You’ve Never Seen Before
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/top-nine-health-care-charts-youve-never.html
These charts, if accurate, pretty much explain why we are where we are on HCR. The Trial Lawyers have a LOT of power.
went to India for gastric bypass. world class surgeon. Muslim hospital with catholic nun nurses of Christians. costs in USA about $60,000. cost there under $11,000. medical tourism is a huge industry. you can look it up. and happy new year. (if not happy the upcoming year should give you much fodder).
One local doctor wrote a letter to the editor a few years ago stating that he was going to stop accepting Medicare patients, simply because he had to increase his accounting staff to take care of the patients which drove his costs through the roof. I know a doctor in Oklahoma City that doesn’t take Medicare, he charges $35 a visit and provides full service. If the doctors in Mexico become Medicare eligible, you might as well say good bye to low cost medicine in Mexico.
MP- Interesting Sweden sez no to Saab bail out
http://www.contracthireandleasing.com/car-leasing-news/index.php/2009/12/01/sweden-refuses-saab-bail-out/
And yes to more nuclear power
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-sweden-nuclear20-2009dec20,0,5613216.story