The Pythagorean Health Care Plan
If you’ve had enough with
- hospitals
- health insurance
- the way medicine in the USA is so very much for-profit
And if you’ve ever wondered why they can’t tell you what something will cost at the hospital, even though they are literally going to bill you for it personally…

Then you may be ready for the Pythagorean Health Care “Plan,” which is as follows. I’m personally practicing this plan and things are going great, but this plan definitely isn’t for everyone.
First of all: Step 1
You need to not have a tax refund.
I know, it seems weird, but the tax refund has got to go, it’s just the government holding your benjamins for a while, and really who should be holding your benjamins except you?

This is crucial because the Obamacare (or ACA) tax for not having formal health insurance only can withdraw out of your tax refund, and you may not know but that is a voluntary fine you pay for not having health insurance if you don’t have a tax refund.
Owing $50–100 every year should be your target for taxes. That means changing your “allowances” on your W2 or W4, if this is new for you that would mean going from having 1 exemption to more like 4 or 5.
Step 2:
Treat yourself to a vacation. Puerto Vallarta is great for dental work. All over Mexico and Canada the health care is far superior to that in the “good ole” USA, and that’s the data, not some hick’s bigly strong opinion. (31st-best is not somehow the best, no matter how loud Cletus shouts when he says we have the best healthcare in the world in the US. If anything, the US has bad healthcare for the rich but with great marketing and PR, and downright barbaric healthcare for the non-rich.)

You can pay cash for stuff to be done abroad, and it’s actually affordable. You can usually get it all done abroad, including airfare and boarding, for less than a typical deductible at a hospital.
For example:
Back when I had United health insurance through my employer, out of necessity once I looked up my deductible for any kind of hospital visit, and it was literally $5,000 minimum and up from there. Five G’s. Insane.
With a budget of even $2,500, or half that deductible, I could get my butt down to Puerto Vallarta, where I speak Spanish and feel comfortable, and they all speak English anyway in the city (Canada is basically just as good if you’re still scared of Mexico). I can drop like $800 or even $1500 USD (paying it actually in Mexican Pesos of course) for a procedure of pretty much any kind and get it done to professional standards, I can enjoy myself, heal up, and fly back comfortably, and literally I’m only paying half my hospital deductible. For a much better experience.
If you’re not rich, this can equal the difference of going under general anesthesia for wisdom teeth removal and getting nice pain killers, versus being awake during the surgery and getting bad pain killers as they’d have you do on ACA insurance.
In the end, in life, sometimes the nice good stuff is just cheaper. It’s true with tacos, and it’s true with health care.
Of course this plan means 100% self-care and hospital avoidance for anything inside the US, which can be tricky, and it also doesn’t cover you in the event of heinous accidents which render you unable to do anything but get it done in the expensive-ass US. This plan, without doubt, is revolutionary, and to be honest, most health insurers will drop you as soon as you get expensive to cover. The health system in American is designed to put you in debt, doctors are no better or worse than common drug dealers, and most bankruptcies in America arise from medical debt. Doctors and the medical industry are the biggest gangsters in America, and isn’t it a gangster’s paradise here in the USA?…
Overall, if you know of any good resources for traveling out of the US to get procedures done please share in the comments!
#ReadyForTheRevolution
