Re: Medical Tourism


<Hawk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1114708763.003537.44060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Are we ready for medical tourism - the outsourcing of health care?
> >
> > There is a rapid growth industry of medical tourism and it is not
just
> > for alternative therapies or for the uninsured. A typical cardiac
> > surgery in the USA would average over $50,000 that same surgery
> > including round trip airfare, accomodations and a lengthier (and
more
> > personal) recovery averages $10,000 in Bombay with comparable
success
> > rates, standards and safety.
> >
>
> that is ...if you don't get something like malaria or Hep C first!!
> > Medical tourists are traveling to India, Thailand, the East Indies,
> > South America and the Middle East including Saudi Arabia for
medical,
> > dental and surgical procedures. Elective procedures such as
> > rhinoplasty, liposuction, breast augmentation, orthodontics, LASIK
are
> > popular; but, insurance packages are being marketed as well for
cardiac
> > bypass surgery, transplants and many other treatments.
> >
> > Can you imagine a world where your insurance company suggests you
take
> > a trip to Thailand?
>
>
> your insurance company won't!!!
>
> anyone going out of the US is paying cash
>
> seriously...I wouldn't take my DOG to Bombay for surgery!!
>
> my h.o. only



Your humble opinion is just so much racism. Unless of course, you have
hospital stats to back up your bigotry.

Zee



>
>
> > What about public assistance programs, maybe Medicaid and Medicare
> > should ship people to Chennai. How about long term care? Shall we
send
> > our elderly to nursing homes in Mexico or Brazil?
> >
> > -elgoog, "Eppur si muove (and yet it moves)" - Galileo Galilei
> >
> > "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
-
> > Plutarch
> >
> > ref.
> > http://www.medical-tourist.org/
> > http://www.medicaltourismindia.com/
>

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