Would you move to another Country for cheap health care?

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charry said:
What is stopping me Lavinia ?

is my husband had a stroke 10 yrs ago, and is paralysed, so I’ve been his shadow carer ever since ,
we barely go outside the door now, so moving abroad to the sunshine is out of the question now I’m. Afraid !,! 😢
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Sorry to hear that.
 

horseless carriage said:
Ouch, I touched a raw nerve there Holly, my previous reply was to a wider audience. Look at John's post above mine, he pays $800 a month for healthcare insurance, that's about two pounds fifty short of £600. If you were on a salary of £40K you would only pay £400 a month N.I. Of course your employer would contribute £800 making the total £1200, but N.I. also pays statutory sick pay and state pension.
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When quoting prices of private insurance against our National Insurance, you must take into account that we still get free treatment from the NHS if we are unemployed or have a prolonged illness.
 

Purwell said:
When quoting prices of private insurance against our National Insurance, you must take into account that we still get free treatment from the NHS if we are unemployed or have a prolonged illness.
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Quite so, but it seems that I might have gone off on a tangent, so best I say no more on this particular subject.
 
mellowyellow said:
Nearly 53 per cent of all Australians have private health insurance but there is evidence that it's becoming less and less affordable as the gap costs continue to rise. This is despite the availability of Medicare which is free to anyone needing an operation. Take a hip replacement for example - if privately covered, you can choose your own surgeon and you will stay in a comfortable single room in pleasant surroundings. The Medicare option is to go on a waiting list at a public hospital where you will be in a shared ward with no say in who your surgeon will be.
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sounds pretty much like our system here... most people have NHS cover which is what we pay for out of our salaries, or not.. even if people have never worked and paid into the system they get the same medical cover on the NHS as those of us who have paid.. all our lives, and so it should be tbf, but the drawback is that we're extremely short of hospitals and Doctors, and so waiting lists are very long in many parts of the Uk for urgent operations.. and care... .. but also we have 'Private' medical care which we can either sign up to a Medical Insurance company like Bupa and pay into that every month, ( which I have through my husbands' company , but it has an annual price cap) and so when operations are needed or urgent care where there's a long NHS waiting list, we can pay for our care and get seen to faster.. or we can pay out of pocket literally for one off procedures, like MRI's., and operations and procedures which aren't as expensive as others etc...
 
Move to another country implies that permanent residency is the goal to take advantage of lower cost health care.

Going to Mexico was mentioned. Not easy.

To apply for and be granted a permanent resident visa, the applicants must: have certain close family connections in Mexico, or. apply for retirement status and prove they have sufficient monthly income (or substantial assets) to support themselves, or. have 4 consecutive years of regular status as Temporary Resident, ...

But if the intent of the op was to schedule a surgery that is different.
1. Research into to where to get & be assured that you would get quality care would be 1st.
2.Cost to have done whatever the surgery was for.
3.Recovery time.
4.The cost to stay until cleared to travel.
5.Cost to travel going to & returning.

The example in post 1 was 10k vs. 400. Considering the requirements to move to anywhere for residency and/or the aim is to go somewhere to get cheaper surgery it might not be as cost effective as hoped for.

My short answer is no.
 
hollydolly said:
sounds pretty much like our system here... most people have NHS cover which is what we pay for out of our salaries, or not.. even if people have never worked and paid into the system they get the same medical cover on the NHS as those of us who have paid.. all our lives, and so it should be tbf, but the drawback is that we're extremely short of hospitals and Doctors, and so waiting lists are very long in many parts of the Uk for urgent operations.. and care... .. but also we have 'Private' medical care which we can either sign up to a Medical Insurance company like Bupa and pay into that every month, ( which I have through my husbands' company , but it has an annual price cap) and so when operations are needed or urgent care where there's a long NHS waiting list, we can pay for our care and get seen to faster.. or we can pay out of pocket literally for one off procedures, like MRI's., and operations and procedures which aren't as expensive as others etc...
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Yes it does sound similar Dolly
 
charry said:
Well Said Holly....I totally Agree.....👏👏
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Yes, Holly, well put. I have spent 2 winters down in Texas and found out that the people who really hate Canadian and probably British health insurance are the people who have been in the military and have good coverage.

The Canadian system where I live is not perfect but everyone is taken care by the health system, the rich and the poor and everyone else. Unlike the US no one needs to sell their home to pay for major health care if they are not insured.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/health/us-health-care-rankings/index.html
 
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Packerjohn said:
It is not free. Like in Canada, it is paid for by taxes. I like the system because everyone is taken care off; whether rich or poor. I never heard of anyone having to sell a home here to pay for an operation.
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It's free at point of service, we don't get bills after or asked for proof of insurance before we get treatment.... see my post further back..
 
I like Medicare a whole lot. Takes care of almost anything I'd need (though I'm not particularly sickly; there is that) and there's pretty much no waiting.
 
Knight said:
Move to another country implies that permanent residency is the goal to take advantage of lower cost health care.

Going to Mexico was mentioned. Not easy.

To apply for and be granted a permanent resident visa, the applicants must: have certain close family connections in Mexico, or. apply for retirement status and prove they have sufficient monthly income (or substantial assets) to support themselves, or. have 4 consecutive years of regular status as Temporary Resident, ...

But if the intent of the op was to schedule a surgery that is different.
1. Research into to where to get & be assured that you would get quality care would be 1st.
2.Cost to have done whatever the surgery was for.
3.Recovery time.
4.The cost to stay until cleared to travel.
5.Cost to travel going to & returning.

The example in post 1 was 10k vs. 400. Considering the requirements to move to anywhere for residency and/or the aim is to go somewhere to get cheaper surgery it might not be as cost effective as hoped for.

My short answer is no.
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Devi said:
I like Medicare a whole lot. Takes care of almost anything I'd need (though I'm not particularly sickly; there is that) and there's pretty much no waiting.
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I feel the same way about Medicare. I thought Obamacare was supposed to take care of the uninsured problem but I guess it didn't work out that way.
 
Robert59 said:
Would you move to another Country for cheap health care?
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No, I think that the whole cost of relocation would wipe out any savings on health care. Not to mention having to adapt to a foreign location and culture. I might travel abroad for a specific treatment if it wasn't available in the U.S.; hopefully that will never be necessary.
 
Nathan said:
No, I think that the whole cost of relocation would wipe out any savings on health care. Not to mention having to adapt to a foreign location and culture. I might travel abroad for a specific treatment if it wasn't available in the U.S.; hopefully that will never be necessary.
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you could come here Nathan, we're not foreign... :LOL:
 
Nathan said:
..thing is, I've found her lineage well documented back to the 1600s. 🤷‍♂️
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yes I meant that other family members..perhaps peternal.. and also other nationalities who may have married into the maternal side since your Irish grandmother..may have been so far removed from Irish that it lessened the strength of the DNA
 
hollydolly said:
yes I meant that other family members..perhaps peternal.. and also other nationalities who may have married into the maternal side since your Irish grandmother..may have been so far removed from Irish that it lessened the strength of the DNA
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I suppose that may have been the case. Here in the "New World" immigrants tended to live in a close community, tended to do business, go to church and marry within their own group. Of course there are exceptions, as my Irish g.grandmother did marry my g.grandfather, who was Swiss-German.
 
Nathan said:
I suppose that may have been the case. Here in the "New World" immigrants tended to live in a close community, tended to do business, go to church and marry within their own group. Of course there are exceptions, as my Irish g.grandmother did marry my g.grandfather, who was Swiss-German.
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there you are you see.. straight away we've got 2 separate nationalities into the mix, before we even go further down the ancestral line... :D
 
I would move to another country if medical costs were bleeding me dry. Fortunately, we have a good system in Canada. However, if I lived where medical costs were exorbitant - my answer is "yes".
 
hollydolly said:
there you are you see.. straight away we've got 2 separate nationalities into the mix, before we even go further down the ancestral line... :D
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What's even more of mystery is that there's no[I haven't yet found any] genealogical data on these markers:

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Edit: I would love to have a genealogical workup of my ancestry like they do on Finding Your Roots...I'm sure that would be quite pricey.
 

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