Costa Rica can provide cradle to grave health care for its citizens and legal foreign residents.

Costa Rica’s low cost health care system continues to attract retirees with medical issues. Most of the people on my monthly relocation/retirement tours have told me that one of the main reasons they are exploring Costa Rica for retirement is the affordability of its public health care system. You can insure yourself for under $60 per month depending on your income. Many Costa Ricans pay under $20 dollars monthly for full medical coverage.

One of the real advantages is that the Caja (public health care system) will not exclude you for pre-existing conditions. They cover everything. People in the U.S. have been lost all of their life savings because of medical conditions that are not covered by their insurance or because they are uninsured. This is not the case in Costa Rica. It seems unbelievable that a small country with a little over four million people can provide cradle to grave health care for its citizens and legal foreign residents who join the health care system.