The US News and World Report recently released a Consumer Guide to Medical Travel, enumerating the different ways U.S. patients can save money by getting medical treatment abroad.

The Guide includes a handy hospital finder that lets you find hospitals by country. Several medical outfits in Southeast Asia qualify: ten in Singapore, three in Thailand, and one in the Philippines.

The gap between U.S. prices and those abroad is undeniably huge: coronary artery bypass surgery that costs at least $70,000 will set you back only $12,000 in Malaysia.

How many Americans seek medical treatment abroad? The article’s author, Avery Comarow, reports that McKinsey & Co. tallies the annual number at around 60,000 to 85,000.

Is seeking medical treatment abroad somehow… unpatriotic? Comarow shrugs off the question – “Why should someone with bad hips or a bad heart and no health coverage... be criticized for seeking care at a perfectly good hospital 10,000 miles away at a quarter or a fifth of the price a U.S. hospital would charge? To suffer is patriotic?”