But the problem lies in the fact that for &#x27;medical tourism&#x27; to be an option at all you first have to achieve a certain amount of wealth <i>and</i> your social situation has to be one where you can just pack-up-and-leave for an x amount of time without your life ending up in disarray upon your return. For many people these are not options because of money in the first place <i>so they would not be able to pay the full price in the US to begin with</i>.<p>It&#x27;s just another wealth-begets-more-wealth story, your jump off point is already one of considerable privilege, one that relatively few people in the US have.