Re: Medical Tourism


"elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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


> 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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