Yeah, I've seen stories on news magazine shows about luxury hospitals that are basically like resorts. People travel there as a vacation, get their surgery during that time, and pay like 15% of what the surgery alone would have cost in the US. I thought it was Thailand, but maybe it was India?

And, buying Canadian meds are another way people are leaving the US health system. Way cheaper than buying them here for a lot of meds.

But, reading about this whole health care mess, only 4% of US people are buying from Canda, despite a whole lotta more who are having trouble affording them. Americans are just so used to walking around like embiciles with their insurance card held out in front of them, they apparently don't even bother to look for better deals when it comes to that stuff. Which is a major problem with the system. People have been so brainwashed, they don't even expect transparency that would expose health care to competition any more. They just sign on the dotted line.

Involving government bureaucracies would just increase the lack of transparency all the more.

pharmacychecker.com for any XPT'ers who are having trouble affording their meds. That place was set up by a couple of guys who used to work for the FDA to screen foreign pharmacies for consumers.