Lastest service to be outsourced: Doctor visits. “The Gonzaleses are members of a Blue Shield of California HMO that provides all of the family’s nonemergency care in Mexico. They are among 20,000 California workers and their dependents in health plans that cost 40 to 50 percent less than comparable care in the United States because the doctor’s visits are outsourced south of the border.

With health-care costs in the U.S. continuing to rise, many employers in Southern California are turning to insurance plans that send their workers to Mexico for routine care, plans that are growing by nearly 3,000 people a year. And Gonzales, for his part, is happy about it.”

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