China announces "medical tourism" special economic zone on Hainan Island

A quick Google suggests that Oz dentistry prices are roughly on par with Mexico (AKA <20% of the US price).

And, for once, this isn’t obviously about socialised medicine; Australia’s single-payer taxpayer-funded healthcare doesn’t cover dentistry.

I suspect that the USA’s profit-based-healthcare bastardry is still responsible for the difference, though.

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