If you can buy a insurance plan for 350 a year compared to 100 a month for medicare when you retire why not? I also know that many single older woman are moving out of the US for security reasons. I have met two women in their 70's that bought condos in Costa Rica.One from Texas who said she was scarred to live in her home in Texas and felt unsafe plus the food is so much better and fresh in Costa Rica. The other one was from Montana who says she can get around in Costa Rica and feels safer and her money goes further. Most foreign countries have their own health insurance you can buy into for about what it cost in the US for a few months. Many people in the US are still under the impression that the US has the best Dr.s and healthcare in the world. Not anymore, many American Dr.s now work in these countries and their healthcare is rated worldwide better that the US. The United States healthcare has dropped to 37th most likely lower now. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0910064 considering we may much more for healthcare than any other country in the world where does our money go?