This pundit isn’t going on any medical tourism trips anytime soon:

However, Newsweek does not break out statistics on the types of Americans (all 150,000 of them – 0.2%) who go to get treatment in SE Asia. How many of these people are there for plastic surgery or gender reassignment?

They try to say it’s the “cost.”

That’s nice. But if the doctor screws up royally, who are you going to sue? From whom will you collect damages if the surgeon shows up hammered and takes off the wrong arm?

I am not a person who is very supportive of outrages lawsuits, but there is a need to sue some medical practitioners for malpractice. There is a reason you choose name-brand sometimes…I would rather go to Sears to have my car serviced than Jim’s World of Parts because I can recoup cost or future service without having to visit Judge Judy first.