Even though my medical costs are all covered, i still go to the private hospitals there as:
1. I do not want to wait a few hours to see a doctor
2. I get the same type of service and sometimes much better from the doctors since i noticed when i am overseas, almost always the doctor has much more time for you and not as eager to push meds/supplements to you.
3. More nurses who are willing and able to help even though sometimes they may take a while to understand. When my wife needed assistance, nurses that came were not the complaining type that we encountered at a supposedly very good private hospital in Singapore.
4. My firstborn almost did not make it in that Singapore hospital as the nurse rudely told us to go back since the water hasn't broke and was kind of blaming us for wasting her time. I was feeling bad for the doctor who was rushing to the hospital and so decided to wait for him. When he came, he berated the foreign nurse as the water has broken and dried up already.
Not a single word of apology from her but she didn't dare to look us in the eye after that and i was too engaged in the process of childbirth to think on this as the Dr asked me to help out AS THERE WAS A LACK OF NURSES that day. I became the first to see the baby, interestingly opened the left eye and kind of looked at me (i know they still can't see) knowingly and then kind of smiled and went back to sleep. I guess i became closer to my baby because i was involved in the whole birth process, still have a habit of hugging me when sleeping.
This was the kind of medical care that made me try out a foreign one.