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I think it would depend upon where you decided to retire and whether you had family in a home country or some sort of friend/business ties there that could help you evaluate such a question.  I think you would need to do your research on how nonresidents would be treated in the country's health system for big things such as an emergency surgery, sudden diagnosis as for a cardiac condition in need of surgery or cancer in need of immediate treatment?  Is there a state system with managed care and wait times for even diagnosis follow-up?  How to non-residents get into such a health care system?   Is there a way to purchase health insurance abroad in the country you want to go to?  I saw in another post that you can still retain Medicare health insurance here, so you want to be up on the rules and how you pay for continuing coverage here, too.  Again, besides the health care system itself, there would be the issue of circle of support from others that would be important to evaluate.  Likely the more well off you are, the more options on this question exist.
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