Re: Medical Tourism


"outrider" <outrider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> <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
>


Hardly racism or bigotry to "wonder" about having surgery in a third world
country...which India is

now...if a surgeon trained in Bombay came HERE to operate it would be a
different situation all together

and no...no stats...just what I am reading in professional journals..

go ahead..Zee..have your open heart on the moon


>
>>
>>
>> > 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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