[anovikov]

Real way to fix healthcare: facilities based on repurposed container ships offshore near cities with lots of flights into them, to be outside of US regulations, staffed by physicians shuffled from Eastern Europe. Will offer more than an order of magnitude price advantage and will quickly squeeze the existing systems making it irrelevant until what's left of it is forced to change.

[thrance]

This seems extremely carbon intensive and would starve eastern Europe of the medical staff it probably needs. Also why would they charge an order of magnitude less when a 3% discount would be enough to attract patients? And how could a brain surgeon do his thing on a boat? This just seems comically bad.

[the_sleaze_]

only marginally different from just opening a luxury clinic in ie. Mexico with the exact same staff, which of course exists.

My mom refuses to leave the US healthcare system despite the costs because

1. She pays for insurance, not surgery (in her mind)

2. regardless of the keening US healthcare system is the best in the world

[kbelder]

That is interesting, although improbable.

[Yeul]

Well my dentist is from Ukraine. I hope she doesn't go back.