Take Off The Blinders - Shop Around For Medical Services!
Too many baby-boomers are working extra years just to cover the high cost of medical benefits -- and what they get for their effort is deteriorating health -- which cancels out any...

Too many baby-boomers are working extra years just to cover the high cost of medical benefits -- and what they get for their effort is deteriorating health -- which cancels out any medical benefit advantage.

It pays to shop around locally and globally and compare what you're getting for your monthly insurance payments and your out-of-pocket medical expenses.

If you knew how much money you could save by managing some of your health across the border, you might re-think the logic of working extra jobs for extra years and consider how much healthier you could be without all that stress and with a few more "health holidays".

For example, in 2006, I stepped right across the U.S. border into the Mexican dental town of Los Algodonas and got four crowns --porcelain crowns -- done for $560. I flew from Seattle to Arizona, rented a car and had a lovely vacation. I visited with locals and other traveling Americans and Canadians, and did all that for the same price my friend paid in the Seattle for one bridge! I had a great time, I took care of my teeth, and she stayed at home in the cold.

So I came home and cancelled my dental insurance. And I transferred that amount of money that I would ordinarily include in any kind of a Medicare, Medi-gap, or just traditional insurance plan into my vacation fund.

It's my mission in life to connect America's baby-boomers with expats and other world travelers so that, through the free exchange of information, people will learn how much more value they can add to their life by taking off the "medical blinders" and shopping around for foreign doctors and livable communities abroad.

Savings on dental work is just a "toe-in-the-water" experience compared to the tens of thousands of dollars that can be saved by zooming out to include visiting foreign doctors and hospitals for medical services. Just ask the expat populations. A website dedicated to that mission is traveling4health.com.