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by slt2021 457 days ago
high cost of healthcare can be solved overnight: just mandate insurance companies to pay for healthcare for foreign hospitals (at rates not exceeding US rates).

so that Americans could travel overseas and get healthcare expenses reimbursed over there.

watch prices drop...

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Does that include airfare and living expenses? I figured out that if I needed two crowns, it would be cheaper to fly to Estonia and use my friend's dentist than to go to a US dentist.

On prescriptions, reimbursement for drugs bought from cost plus would also help drive down pharma prices