TL and Medical Tourism

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by tanksoldier

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However US citizens far more often travel to other countries for treatment because it’s cheaper. If you don’t need absolute cutting edge tech to fix your problem, going to a lower tech and thus cheaper area for treatment becomes an option. Also, it may provide options for treatment that aren’t available due to regulation or ethical issues.

I expect that medical tourism in Traveller would involve more people traveling to lower tech planets to receive less expensive treatment that can be effectively provided at that tech level... especially plastic surgery.

I think you know that's not the main reason Americans go out of country for medical procedures. The reason is purely due to our jacked up prices and lack of national healthcare. So while certainly possible for one or more Traveller planets to suffer similarly, it's not really an issue of TL alone.