You ever considered traveling to another country to have a medical procedure? Where would you go?

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I know people travel to DR/Colombia/Turkey/Thailand/South Korea for all sorts of cosmetic reasons, but if you needed to have surgery on one of your organs, and your financial or health insurance situation is not good in your home country, what other country would you trust to have high level care at a fraction of the price?

Also, I'm assuming that you might not want to chance it for major surgeries like transplants, but if it was something more routine like shoulder, ankle, hemorrhoids, sinus, etc. what place do you think would be capable to get you sorted out nicely?

I've heard for many years that Cuba was pretty top-notch with medical procedures, and since you'd probably be traveling from a 1st world country, you'd probably be able to afford the BEST hospital once you got to Cuba, but has anyone else heard anything different?

Thankfully, I'm fortunate enough to not need to use this info. right now in my life, but it's always good to know just in case.
 

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Cuba, Nigeria, India, Australia, Japan, Singapore
As a 1st world nation, would Japan really be a good alternative? I mean, it might be less expensive than the USA, but could it really be considered affordable?

It might be all of the negative stereotypes that I've seen, but is India actually building a rep as a sanitary and affordable place for good healthcare? In the USA, at least in New York City, alot of the young dentists and doctors are Indian or of Indian descent, so I guess that if a good amount eventually move back to India then the country will have a huge supply of good US-trained doctors.


Cuba has some of the best doctors. But not sure how paying/getting surgery would work since theyre communists and you're foreigner
I know that it's easier for Americans to enter Cuba now than it's been in previous decades. I just checked quickly on a US government site and it says that most US citizens can tavel under one of 12 different categories. It lists "clinics" as one of the categories, but I don't think that means medical clinics. Still, I'm sure there's some way to do it. I qualify for other citizenships though, so it would be easier to travel through those passports.
 

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As a 1st world nation, would Japan really be a good alternative? I mean, it might be less expensive than the USA, but could it really be considered affordable?

It might be all of the negative stereotypes that I've seen, but is India actually building a rep as a sanitary and affordable place for good healthcare? In the USA, at least in New York City, alot of the young dentists and doctors are Indian or of Indian descent, so I guess that if a good amount eventually move back to India then the country will have a huge supply of good US-trained doctors.



I know that it's easier for Americans to enter Cuba now than it's been in previous decades. I just checked quickly on a US government site and it says that most US citizens can tavel under one of 12 different categories. It lists "clinics" as one of the categories, but I don't think that means medical clinics. Still, I'm sure there's some way to do it. I qualify for other citizenships though, so it would be easier to travel through those passports.

I trust the cultures of those countries to produce doctors that take their craft seriously.

I don’t know much about the actual health care system or anything.
 

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I need to go to one of them country’s to safely get a few inches taken off my meat:dame:
no one man should have all this power :win:

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