[aaron425]

It's incredible that medical tourism can allow people to be treated by a Mayo & Brigham and Women's trained physician at a fraction of the cost, and that the physician actually makes more. I suppose much of the expense here is what American facilities normally charge, though I wonder if the stated prices in the article are before any negotiations between the providers and payors.

[teej]

Don’t mistake “more than what the doctor would make from Medicare” as anything close to what they make normally. Medicare pays pennies on the dollar.

[merpnderp]

The US doesn’t have a free market healthcare system, it has some corrupt charade where aspirin can cost $300 and seeing a doctor in an ER for 2 minutes can cost $3,000.