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We are on PR Log (Press Release) ? Mar 03, 2010 This forum post has messages dated from 11/22/10 through 10/14/11, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Medical Procedures
| We are on PR Log (Press Release) ? Mar 03, 2010  Medical Tourism It is expected that medical tourism will become a $40 billion business by 2010. The projected increase in the ...medical tourists is from 750, 000 in 2007 to 15.75 million in 2017. Worldwide, medical travel is growing rapidly and places like Thailand ...medical facilities. Why do people travel abroad for medical tourism? Cost is the big reason. Today, forty-seven million Americans are uninsured. ...medical or surgical procedures in the U.S. is often prohibitive and far beyond the average person?s ability to pay for it. ...procedures (i.e. heart bypass, joint replacement, spinal disc repair, Lasik eye surgery, Lapband weight reduction surgery) cost 50% to 90% less abroad. Those huge |
| The success of the medical tourism industry in a lot of Asian countries means that more and more patients from developed countries find the rates of medical treatments in their own country to be obscenely high. They would rather travel to another country and rely on a foreign doctor's care and expertise. This is good news for the countries that thrive in medical tourism but shouldn't the medical industry in the country of those foreign patients take a second look at their own? |
| Through the advent of technology people also have a better way of doing medical procedures. This has helped a lot of patients who need medical assistance. It will also be an advantage for many medical experts who can help sick people in any parts of the world. Effective medical procedures in a particular place will help the popularity of the medical tourism and invite foreign patients to take medical assistance there. |
| 40 billion is a huge amount of money. How can so much be spent on that? i do not understand this at all. Why can't countries provide their own citizens with proper health so that all this environmental waste from all that travel can be avoided. I know we do not want socialist states, but we can have good health care without that, I believe rather strongly. |
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