Surgeries, Side Trips for 'Medical Tourists' (washingtonpost.com)
Surgeries, Side Trips for 'Medical Tourists' (washingtonpost.com): "Surgeries, Side Trips for 'Medical Tourists'
Affordable Care at India's Private Hospitals Draws Growing Number of Foreigners
By John Lancaster
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 21, 2004; Page A01
NEW DELHI -- Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000 -- an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance.
So he outsourced the job to India.
Howard Staab, who had a life-threatening heart condition requiring surgery, went to India with his partner, Maggi Grace, in search of affordable care. (John Lancaster -- The Washington Post)
Taking his cue from cost-cutting U.S. businesses, Staab last month flew about 7,500 miles to the Indian capital, where"..
Washington Post is picking up on another Medical tourism story as US health consumers are growing increasingly stretched by US health costs and waking up to the possibilities of foreign travel for cheaper surgery in India or elsewhere in Asia.
Affordable Care at India's Private Hospitals Draws Growing Number of Foreigners
By John Lancaster
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 21, 2004; Page A01
NEW DELHI -- Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000 -- an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance.
So he outsourced the job to India.
Howard Staab, who had a life-threatening heart condition requiring surgery, went to India with his partner, Maggi Grace, in search of affordable care. (John Lancaster -- The Washington Post)
Taking his cue from cost-cutting U.S. businesses, Staab last month flew about 7,500 miles to the Indian capital, where"..
Washington Post is picking up on another Medical tourism story as US health consumers are growing increasingly stretched by US health costs and waking up to the possibilities of foreign travel for cheaper surgery in India or elsewhere in Asia.
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