If the government takes over medical-care in this country there is little doubt that we will eventually have to start looking for alternative sources. The national health services in Britain and Canada are proof of that. I suggested in a previous post that Cuba should seize the opportunity to start exporting medical-care to citizens of the US, since Michael Moore has assured us that Cuba has an excellent medical-care system.

That was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I do believe this presents an opportunity for one of the impoverished Caribbean islands. A company or consortium of companies should put together a proposal to establish a huge medical complex on one of the islands. This med-plex would specialize in providing the medical services that would be hard to get through Obamacare. It could also include luxury resort hotels for their wealthy patients and family members and less expensive quarters for the not so wealthy.

The consortium could include insurance companies that offer policies to cover the kinds of medical-care provided at the med-plex. These policies could vary from covering all medical-care the insured might need to covering only those procedures and treatments denied by Obamacare. They could also cover the travel expenses. Since the insurance companies operate off-shore they won’t be subject to all the restrictions imposed by the US government. Neither will they be subject to any of the protections, but a free market should give us all the protections we need.

Speaking of a free market, there is no reason this has to be restricted to one consortium and one island. If one med-plex operation becomes successful there will be others. Three-hundred million people is a big market.

I suspect that such a consortium would have little trouble finding an island nation willing to host a med-plex. The boost to the island’s economy would be huge. It’s also possible that Indian reservations in the US could host such med-plexes — like they’re able to host gambling casinos in states that don’t allow casinos.

I don’t think the consortium would have any problem recruiting all the good doctors it will need.