USA Expats: About Your Healthcare Costs

Hello cccmedia,

Thank you for sharing these interesting information and hope that it will help other members as well.

Cheers 

Alexia
Expat.com Team

The USA health care system is a mess and had been for a long time.  Unless a person is rich and has very good but expensive health care, most of the time a person will not get the care needed.  Healthcare is a money trap!  I some people from the USA that seek medical care outside the country due to costs.  It is better to pay out of pocket in another country than to lose almost everything a person owns in the USA.

My sister is paralyzed from the neck down due to being a victim of attempted murder five years ago.  She had no insurance.  The government took all she owned, including her life insurance policy!  She has one with the government for $1500 and that pays for nothing. She is allowed to have $50 dollars a month.  She is onlly taken to ER if her life is in danger.  So,medical care in the USA is horrible for average people. If it weren't for family my sister would have nothing.

I share not for sympathy but to share facts.

I live in the US and have Medicare since I retired. It covers some but not all healthcare costs. If I say anything less than satisfactory about it to my neighbors etc. They look at me like I’m from another planet. Americans are bred to believe that everything is great here. The lucky one’s get away and live in other countries where the bottom line isn’t so important. Of course it’s customary to criticize Canada and other places for their universal health care coverage. It’s disgusting and delusional. Contemplating a move back to Ecuador where I was born.