“If you are purposely going abroad for medical care, and paying to do so, obviously they're going to treat you like royalty. If, on the other hand, you're in an emergency situation, some countries will do a wallet biopsy. … We have clinics, particularly in Mexico, where an American patient comes in with a medical emergency and they swear they'll pay, and often the clinics get stiffed for the bill.”
—Rudy Rupak, the co-founder of medical tourism company Planet Hospital, on Esquire.com.
