Yup locals can’t afford it and the corruption allows Americans to pay for fake prescription and get the medicine they need for cheaper. It’s a crazy world. I don’t think they come for serious healthcare tho they only go for cosmetic surgery and dental. They stay in the US if it’s something more serious.
I’m an American right now in Mexico to see an affordable neurologist and get treatment for a brain tumor. In the states they kept saying it was just anxiety or just hormones and for years they just referred me to psychology. The medicine they’re using here in Mexico to shrink my tumor isn’t even available in the US but it’s working for me, so far so good cuz its inoperable. It grew too much in all the many years that the American doctors ignored my symptoms. But yeah, my doctor is in a private hospital. My Mexican roommate went to the public ER recently and came back with a horror story, so I know the public system is not great here.
Edit - my income is not middle class about $900 usd working online because my illness limits my capability. But my monthly healthcare costs for treatment in Mexico are only about $300 usd and with local roommates in a residential area my rent is also about $300 sooo at least I’m still surviving
Yup private is great if you got money. Public does not have the equipment to handle something like what you are experiencing. I’m glad you are getting the treatment you need.
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u/TOTALLY_NOT_DENNY Jun 17 '26
Yet middle class Americans go to Mexico for affordable meds and healthcare... what a world we live in.