Reply #132: hah [View All]

It would be *free* up here. I mean, if you wuz one of us.

It used to be that it would be a lot cheaper up here if you wuzn't. I looked into, don't laugh, a vasectomy reversal for someone I knew in the States maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Her intended was going to have to pay I think it was $7000 US, and that may not have included hospital fees. Here it would have been $3000 Cdn, which at the time was a lot less in yankee dollars, all-inclusive. They could have spent a week here skiing first and still been ahead. (The procedure isn't covered by the health plan here, so the price was the same for anybody, local or foreign, didn't matter. There would have been about a year waiting, simply because so few doctors do it, during which the preliminary procedures were done. Tubal ligations and vasectomies are covered/free here, but reversals aren't.)

But now, what with our dollar being worth more than yours and all ... you might want to consider Cuba. ;)

I've been treated at a hospital in Cuba. Beat hell out of the NHS hospital in North London my mum was treated at when we were in England just before they started rebuilding from the wreckage left by Thatcher, that was for sure.