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As this grows in awareness and popularity, I can see US healthcare providers lobbying to make it illegal. Which would be tough - what do you do, put heart surgeons on the no-fly list?

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We have pretty good doctors down here too, why the need to fly one form the USA other than prejudice?

As the article mentions, so you can sue if something goes wrong.

My mother’s friend did medical tourism and it went horribly wrong. When she got back home, local doctors were like “i’m not dealing with that problem because I didn’t cause it”.

The continuity of care is way better if you can keep the same doc once you get home.

States could decide to take away their medical licenses. I would hope politicians would choose to fix their mess of a system rather than punish doctors but perhaps that's overly optimistic of me.

A politican will have a choice: a 50 M bribe from healthcare mafia or being the good guy for a few weeks until his name is forgotten.

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