Here's One Way to Solve The Healthcare Crisis - Take a Mexican Dental or Medical Vacation

Thousands of people fed up with the high cost of dental or medical care back home, are now jumping on planes and coming to Cabo San Lucas Baja California and seeing a Mexican dentist - making Cabo America's number one healthcare vacation destination. Healthcare tourists are the fastest growing group of the 2.5 million visitors Los Cabos (Cabo and nearby San Jose Del Cabo) receives each year.

People often wait hours for treatment in hospital waiting rooms back in the USA, and even weeks to months for an appointment with a specialist. But they can see a doctor or dentist in the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas the same day, save a bundle of money, and get a free vacation thrown in. One clinic - Cabo Cosmetic Dental.com is even throwing in the air fare and hotel for some of its patients. Read on.

Cabo is easy to get to being just 1.5 hours to 5 hours flight time away from all major US cities - about the same time it can take for a Tijuana border crossing on a busy day. Flights to Cabo are only $200-$600 r/t from any major city in the US to Cabo.

Cabo has much to offer the dental or medical tourist including miles of un-crowded beaches, sizzling nightlife, fine dining, sport shopping at malls, championship golf courses, grand resorts, boutique hotels, big game fishing, surfing, dinner dance show cruises, horse back riding on the beach, partying 24/7 and more!

Cabo features bi-lingual doctors, new facilities, state-of-the-art equipment and offers a menu of special benefits and services designed for the medical or dental tourist. Some hotels offer discounts to healthcare tourists.

Crowns and root canals here are only$400-500US vs $800-3,000 in the USA. The savings quickly add up covering ones airfare, hotel, dining, etc. Just one crown and root canal in Cabo can save as much as $1000-4,000 dollars vs. prices back home!

Some patients arrive reeling from shock after have been quoted $40,000 to $100,000usd for a full-mouth (27 teeth) cosmetic restoration or dental makeover. In Cabo a full-mouth makeover will cost only around $10,000. to $20,000. You can pay for your vacation and buy a nice car with the difference. Plastic surgery, hip and joint replacements, angioplasty, weight loss surgery and more are available in Cabo at substantial savings.

Online Consultations allow the patients to email x-rays, their dentists Treatment Plans and even digital photos of their teeth to the doctors to review. Cabo Cosmetic Dental in Cabo has seen 1,000's of dental tourists in the 30 years it has been open. Dentist Dr. Arciga (are-see-gah), is a director of the Baja Dental Association, and certified cosmetic dentist who does everything from general dentistry to implants and full-mouth restorations.

His website www.cabocosmeticdental.com has a video and photo galleries of Cabo, plus facs and information on taking a dental vacation.

Over the past ten years, I've had consultations, tests and treatments for myself here in Los Cabos from cardiac and ear specialists, and an expert ophthalmologist with seven years of training. I've also had a fractured leg cared for, kidney stones removed, plastic surgery, a seasonal virus or 2, numerous crowns and a couple of bridges - all for a fraction of the cost back home. Brand name prescription medicines and generics - a pittance.

Why so inexpensive? Rents, salaries for medical assistants, little or no administrative costs, and the overall cost of living are low in Mexico. The Mexican government subsidizes medical and dental college tuitions eliminating a huge financial burden most new American doctors are saddled with.

Graduating doctors have to do a year service in a public clinic in repayment of their goverment's medical education subsidy - making basic healthcare free for all Mexicans. The US Congress should take note... After their year of public service they take additional specialist training or go into private practice.

In Mexico patients can choose to go to inexpensive government hospitals and clinics or pay more at private facilities. Medical supplies and equipment come from the same suppliers that US doctors purchase from, so that's a fixed cost health care professionals on both sides of the border share.

Bottom line - You'll save time and money, on your medical or dental care, by coming to Cabo where the doctors are more than happy to see you. As a healthcare tourist, you'll get priority appointments. As one Cabo doc told me: "I love American and Canadian patients - They show up, on time, they pay, and they don't complain about the prices!"

For more info on dental vacations to Cabo including Free Hotel, Air and Online Consultations goto: www.cabocosmeticdental.com

Cabodavid writes for Discover Los Cabos Newspaper, Los Cabos Magazine, Los Cabos Guide, Luxury Avenue Magazine and many other publications.

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