Mideast sheiks - is there another kind? ;)
But I can report the sheiks are still visiting the US for treatment in droves. In fact, they have de facto private floors (yes entire floors) that they have largely funded. And, of course, the Cleveland and Mayo Clinics don’t have to worry about which failing Obamacare plan the Arabs might be using.
I don’t believe that Sheiks go to France for medical care. With the hospitals in Riyadh, Dubai, even throughout Kuwait - those hospitals make sci-fi seem real, and they aren’t for anyone but arab elites. Such as Sheiks.
A few years before my younger daughter died, we were going to The Mayo Clinic in MN every year. We were up there one time and were coming down in the elevator with some maids. They were talking about not wanting to go to a certain floor. I learn more by listening. They said the Arabs on that floor would toss the used bathroom paper on the floor. Yuck. The King of Jordan and his big group had taken over a whole hospital floor. When we got on the plane to come home, the King’s plane was next to ours. I was not too impressed with it but guess the color made sense for that area. God bless.