Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, JAB wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:46:12 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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This happens.

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"UnitedHealthcare Killing Suspect Said to Have History of Back Pain, a
Common Medical Problem"
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Unknown where this topic goes, but there might be a relationship to
not being able to acquire health insurance in order to pay for another
operation.
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I'm not familiar with this "pre-existing" condition topic in regards
to say company based insurance policies for employees.
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I rather suspect a medical operation is not cheap... $20,000 to
$70,000 would be in the ballpark prices.
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Hmm, I wonder if there's a business opportunity in medical tourism to europe for expensiev procedures? Imagine a company that takes care of migrating americans in need of expensive procedures to europe.
Once they are there and resident, they can then go to the public healthcare system, get their operation, and then move back to the US.
The big question is time. I can easily imagine that immigration from the US might take 3-6 months, and then, depending on the operation you need, the waiting time in europe can be 3-15 months.
But maybe that long time might be worth it, if the procedure costs several 100s of thousands in the US?