Reply #47: My mother went to France for a complicated heart procedure that they invented there. [View All]

[crispini]

She had a week stay in the hospital -- I was able to stay with her in her room -- and then she was readmitted for a day for tests. They billed back to her insurance in the States about $10,000 total. That's half what American hospitals have billed her insurance for the same procedure, with a one day hospital stay.

Her mother was British, and had limited mobility towards the end of her life. She had daily home health visits, free, and my mother is still good friends with her mother's home health care caseworker. It was such a blessing as my mother lived here and couldn't get over as often as she wished to take care of her.