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Forget Moses Cone; how about Mexico?

Business Week has an interesting article up about how insurers are starting to send patients overseas for certain medical procedures. Even after paying the patient's travel costs and other incidentals, the insurer can still come out ahead having the procedure done someplace other than in the U.S. So you could be getting your bypass done in Bangkok.

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