DUDE, I don't know why you're being so combative. It's an option.
Look around, the need is everywhere. It seems to me that hasbro - and the people he's citing - have identified something that can help. Though it's a sorry state of affairs that it's come to that.
Examples abound. A friend who needed extensive dental work (his teeth were literally killing him) stayed with friends in El Centro and went across the border into Mexico and was able to afford to have the work done there. South American/Mexican plastic surgery has been in vogue for years. Americans going into Canada and Mexico for affordable drugs. Affordable drugs over the internet. Those alternatives are thriving despite the pharma backed government scare tactics about the "quality" of the drugs. Look at the recent scandal at Kaiser over the kidney transplants.
The major networks have all run stories on Americans going overseas for major procedures.
With everything from small business to corporations figuring out every way they can to cut benefits and raise costs, if not do away with insurance altogether, you are going to see more. My own personal health insurance has tripled in the last five years. The "benefits manager" is using Caremark, which just means that whether or not a drug works for you, they decide what's cheapest and bully doctors into changing their prescriptions.
Looking outside and beyond the mainstream already is the only option for a good many people. Personally, I think the health insurance (actually all insurance) is pricing themselves right out of the market. And with this blasted "globalization" fad, why is it so unreasonable to think that major medical care will be "outsourced" as well; with all its warts it may be the only choice for a good many patients.
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