GOP Reality Show

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This article discusses something similar, although it's about (possibly illegal) private clinics and not medical tourism.

For me, the problem is that based on the US government's track record of providing health care, which on the one hand is incredibly waste and fraud ridden, and on the other hand has had a lot of spectacular failures to provide proper care to people who need it... well.

This is probably not as big a deal as you think it is! The US generally has pretty bad health care metrics as it is. For example, our life expectancy is pretty low for a first-world nation. However, a funny thing happens when you start looking at the remaining life expectancy of older people: it's generally competitive with other countries. This tends to happen around the age at which Medicare kicks in - i.e. the point at which the government starts paying for your health care.