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Health Insurance

Health

My Journey Through Tijuana for the Best Surgery $2,000 Can Buy

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

Amy Martyn Gen Feb 2020 15min Permalink

Business Health

The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper

Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.

Ari Altstedter Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Politics Health

Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone

When you quite literally have no health insurance options.

Inara Verzemnieks New York Times Magazine Dec 2016 Permalink