Suggestion: During a "Cost saving suggestions drive" I suggested this idea to an airline that I worked for around 1992: Offer a health plan that will allow employees to get their health care offshore. Airlines with international routes are in a unique position to be able to fly employees, at a low cost, to offshore clinics. The idea was rejected by the airline at the time. Today I heard on the radio that a California HMO is offering a very low cost, high quality HMO whose treatments are performed in Mexico. A person, say, in Kansas, will find Mexico harder to get to, obviously. This is what puts airlines in a unique position to offer an extraordinary benefit that will attract quality employees. HMOs serving non-airline employees could negotiate package travel deals with airlines to have their clients transported offshore for treatment as well.