Why Costa Rica Real Estate?
Healthcare
Inexpensive
Costa Ricans are proud of their nation's achievements in the field of health care. Their up-to-date, inexpensive, nationalized cradle to grave health care system reaches all levels of society by offering the same medical treatment to the underprivileged as those who are wealthy.
Many international medical authorities rate Costa Rica as having one of the best low-cost medical care systems in the world, when preventive and curative medicines are considered. The United Nations consistently ranks Costa Rica's public health system as the best in Latin America and one of the top 20 in the world.
There is no surprise why large numbers of foreigners are attracted to Costa Rica's affordable health care. In the United States, for example, millions of people do not have health insurance because it is prohibitively expensive. For this reason, Costa Rica attracts many retirees and medical tourists from the U.S. It doesn't matter if you are a legal resident or a tourist. Everyone is entitled to urgent care at a government hospital and full coverage and comprehensive health insurance plans are very affordable.
Costa Ricans are a healthy people. Life expectancy is 76.3 years for men and 79.8 years for women. Today, an 80-year-old man has a life expectancy of at least eight (actually, 8.4) years. This puts Costa Rica in first place in the world for life expectancy from this age up. The infant mortality rate of less than 11 in 100,000 live births is lower than that in the United States. This figure is on par with any industrialized country in the world and is a testament to the first rate healthcare provided by Costa Rica.
Hospitals have the most up-to-date tools, and laboratories are exceptional. One should feel safe having almost any operations without having to return to the United States or Canada. Most surgical procedures cost only a fraction of what they do in the United States. For example, a heart bypass operations costs about a third of what it does in the United States.
Even if you are in good health, the probability of needing medical care increases with age. The security of knowing that good health services are available represents an enormous relief.
