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She Dropped Her Insurance. Then Fixed Her Knee in Penang

She Dropped Her Insurance. Then Fixed Her Knee in Penang

The whole trip cost one year of the premiums she’d stopped paying.

$12,000 at Home. $3,900 in Mexico City

$12,000 at Home. $3,900 in Mexico City

Plus: Turkey’s new deadline for its clinics, and Penang’s busy first half.

Her US Surgeons Were “Very Well-Known.” She Wasn’t Pleased

Her US Surgeons Were “Very Well-Known.” She Wasn’t Pleased

So she flew 30 hours to Mumbai for a do-over.

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