One of the questions a lot of westerners have about receiving medical care overseas is “What happens if the doctor makes a mistake?” The worry is that they return home and have complications that won’t be covered by their domestic insurance or Medicare. Well, starting next year if your American doctor makes a mistake Medicare won’t cover the cost of fixing it. That’s what ABC news is reporting. Medicare states that the new policy is aimed at promoting better hospital care and safety. The logic behind that is more than a little twisted. Patients with potentially severe complications as a result of a doctor’s mistake suddenly have no coverage to have it corrected. So how do they get treated? Demand that the same doctor who goofed work on them again for free? Ask another doctor to fix them up for free? What are the chances of receiving treatment at all when you now have no coverage because your problem is the result of doctor’s mistake?

There are fewer and fewer rationalizations for getting your medical treatment at home in the west. Another one just disappeared.

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