[cosmojg]

I wonder if medical tourism provides a capitalist solution to the healthcare problem in the US. Could it be cheaper for a health insurance company to pay for flights to and from other countries along with procedures in those countries? There are a lot of non-emergency medical issues which can be serviced this way. In the long run, such insurance would drive down the price of traditional health insurance as well as the price of the procedures themselves locally.

[alistairSH]

This employer is already doing that (and pays some of the savings out to the employee/patient)...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/business/medical-tourism-...

Though, I'm not convinced that's the "correct" solution from a broad societal perspective.

[sbrother]

My state does this for public employees: https://www.sltrib.com/mexico-pharmacy-tourism/

[birdyrooster]

They literally already do this