Re: Medical Tourism

"elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>At this time, it is very unlikely that US insurers are offering the
>option of medical tourism. You would have to go out of your way to find
>insurance with international coverage.

Many insurance companies offer out of area coverage. Bombay qualifies.

The Mail Handlers Benefit Plan, available to many government employees,
says "Overseas Covered Medical Expenses - Reimbursable at the PPO
benefit level ? You pay 10%".

>In some cases, the surgeon you have in Bombay, might be the same
>surgeon you had in L.A. a year ago. What's more, in the U.S. the
>hospital staff to patient ratio is horrendous, and cleaning crews have
>been drastically cut. From what I hear Bombay hospitals are cleaner and
>better staffed. The medical tourism industry is growing and they are
>offering facilities and patient care to envy.

There was an article about medical tourism on the radio earlier this
year. It basically agreed with what you said - facilities set up
foreign patients are often superb (and not what most residents of the
county would get).



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