efarmer wrote:
2. The US political leadership has mauled healthcare.
...
I would love to see Cuba become a mecca for
Americans to receive affordable minor surgery and treatment not affordable or possible
from the money sucking monster America and it's paid for pols afflicted it's citizens with.
True about the US mauling health care. OTOH, given the results of Russian health care (life expectancy of around 50, unsanitary hospitals, etc), I wouldn't even count on the communist state providing QUALITY and far cheaper health care any time soon.
Oh, and I "would love" many beautiful 23 year old girls to slavishly crave my body exactly according to my best dream fantasies. Funny how in real life, what we would love doesn't often happen. Reality -- what a bummer.
3. Southwest Airlines will surely have the cheap airfare to Cuba and your choice will be
$1200 out of pocket for a minor medical procedure or $600 for you and the spouse to go
to Cuba, have it done, spend two days on the beach, and have enough left to make that steep
payment on your health insurance so you can have a $2M ICU death when you get terminally
ill someday.
Per documentaries like an "Inside Man" Season 3, Episode 2, "Club Med" TV program with Morgan Spurlock, such things already exist, but in places like Thailand. Try $50,000 worth of tests and medical advice from top doctors in an eerily competent and efficient hospital with, by the way, VERY NICE hotel/resort style accommodations to recover in for about $100 a day for the room. Also anecdotal information from friends I have who live near Thailand, this already exists, and has for over a decade. Much better, but a longer trip. Dental, medical, etc.)
Oh, and per the "Club Med" episode, Spurlock avoids risky and painful surgery re the simple exercise regimen the Thai doctors recommended for his torn rotator cuff, and got better. So better results for 6% of the price (plus travel). If you don't mind long flights, sounds like a good deal. And I STRONGLY doubt that Cuba will realistically offer anything close to that in quality comparison in a decade or in five, if communism remains, for any cost.
A quick search yielded a link to a reasonable looking CNN story on this episode:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/28/tv/medica ... nside-man/Note: re the graphic in the link, the $3,000 vs. $50,000 numbers I got were per the episode (as I remember it, near the end). I think Spurlock's doctor mentioned the $50,000 figure. The $7,000 to $14,000 for everything in the US the CNN gives is largely BS. Colonoscopies (normal) can run as much as $20,000 in the US).
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.