Liposuction may be a great way to get a jump start on what you've been trying to do for a while already (lose weight), and get you started on a healthy new life path that could keep you in good stead for years to come, if you can afford it. And there is the rub, because unless it is going to save your life, insurance policies (most of them) are not too likely to want to cover you liposuction. And while in some cases it is a lifesaving procedure that is very much needed, and those cases urgently, but in the overwhelming majority of cases it is something that is done to help in a weight loss or figure management program.

Let's put all discussion of why treatments like this should be so expensive as to be available only to the super elite celebrity-ruling class (that we pretend doesn't really exist) aside and get straight on to the workaround. And that, my friends and neighbors, is medical tourism. Yes medical tourism, once a something near pilgrimage done in the hopes of finding rare cures or treatment, now a way to slip out from under the yoke of oppressive medical costs and get liposuction.

Where, you might ask, is the best place to get liposuction outside of the country? The answer is Thailand. While many countries around the world offer competitively priced medical treatments, Thailand has earned a well deserved reputation as one of the best places in the world for cosmetic treatments, period. Not just for those trying to save money, period.

It has done this by maintaining an outstanding safety record, receiving and maintaining international accreditation at many of its clinics and hospitals, and also because so many of those clinics, for reasons I would not begin to guess, decided to focus their efforts on cosmetic procedures like plastic surgery and liposuction. This means that they have a specially developed and highly effective staff and service catalogue.

But bear in mind that even a procedure as simple as liposuction is a bit more complex than simply travelling to Thailand for a week on the beach. For this reason it I really advise finding a good medical travel agency to help with the arrangements. If you do that, you will be surprised to learn that for less than half the cost of liposuction alone at home you can have a week-long vacation AND liposuction in beautiful Thailand (airfare included, bub).