Medical Tourism

news about medical tourism and patients travelling to foreign countries for medical treatment

Saturday, January 28, 2006

120 million US citizens without dental cover


PRESS RELEASE Anywhere MD Inc. (OTC: ANWM) Has Entered the Asian Marketplace With Its Initial System Sales to Prestige Asia for Beta Testing in Thailand: "Medical tourism will be particularly attractive in the United States, where an estimated 43 million people are without health insurance and 120 million without dental coverage -- numbers that are both likely to grow. Patients in Britain, Canada and other countries with long waiting lists for major surgery will be just as eager to take advantage of foreign health-care options. For many medical tourists, though, the real attraction is price. The cost of surgery in India, Thailand or South Africa can be one-tenth of what it is in the United States or Western Europe, and sometimes even less. A heart-valve replacement that would cost $200,000 or more in the U.S., for example, goes for $10,000 in India -- and that includes round-trip airfare and a brief vacation package. A full facelift that would cost $20,000 in the U.S. runs about $1,250 in South Africa. You can certainly see the opportunity a creative company like AnyWhere MD would have to prosper and grow out its business plan."

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