Crossing to Mexico for Hospitals and Healthcare

Newsweek by Tina Peng | Nov. 20, 2008 (Special Report)

Now, Americans like Dorthea who live along the Mexican border are driving and even walking south in search of treatment that can cost half or less of what it does in the United States. In response, American hospital chains are starting to buy into Mexico Full Story »

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 by Rebecca Hale - Nov. 21, 2008

Yes this story gives multiple sources and considers different stakeholders' points of view so I consider it good journalism. However the underlying economics of why American procedures need to cost 3 times as much as Mexican procedures is stated as a given and not explored.

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