> If you can afford it, I'm sure the US offers the best medical treatment in the world
But it doesn't! At least not across the board. Yes, there are diseases and conditions for which the best treatment is given in American health care facilities, but it's not consistent. And certainly not for routine stuff.
The truly wealthy travel to other countries to get treatment if that's where the best specialists work. Among the countries with better options for a variety of things are Canada, Singapore. Singapore, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom (yes, even with the much-disparaged NHS) Dubai, and Israel. Canada for drug and alcohol addiction treatment (the US is still mostly stuck in the addiction-as-moral-failing mode), Japan and Singapore for cancer treatments.
And there's one other thing: it can actually be cheaper to fly to another country, get treated there, and fly back to the US, than to stay in the US and get stuck with a US healthcare bill. And there's nothing the rich love more than keeping their money.
But it doesn't! At least not across the board. Yes, there are diseases and conditions for which the best treatment is given in American health care facilities, but it's not consistent. And certainly not for routine stuff.
The truly wealthy travel to other countries to get treatment if that's where the best specialists work. Among the countries with better options for a variety of things are Canada, Singapore. Singapore, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom (yes, even with the much-disparaged NHS) Dubai, and Israel. Canada for drug and alcohol addiction treatment (the US is still mostly stuck in the addiction-as-moral-failing mode), Japan and Singapore for cancer treatments.
And there's one other thing: it can actually be cheaper to fly to another country, get treated there, and fly back to the US, than to stay in the US and get stuck with a US healthcare bill. And there's nothing the rich love more than keeping their money.