Americans increasingly traveling overseas for cheaper surgeries
Americans increasingly traveling overseas for cheaper surgeriesAmericans are increasingly traveling overseas to save money on medical procedures.
The trend is being driven by rising health care costs and frustrated ranks of uninsured American workers.
Surgeries are often cheaper in Third World countries where salaries and litigation expenses are lower than in the U-S. The practice is called 'medical tourism' because many Americans take a vacation at the same time.
Fifty-two-year-old investment manager Howard Aschwald of Belvedere says he saved close to six-thousand dollars on laser eye surgery and a heart screening in Mumbai, India.
Experts, however, warn about the danger of unregulated facilities.
And a spokesman for the California Medical Association says the practice will not likely solve California's health care woes.
The trend is being driven by rising health care costs and frustrated ranks of uninsured American workers.
Surgeries are often cheaper in Third World countries where salaries and litigation expenses are lower than in the U-S. The practice is called 'medical tourism' because many Americans take a vacation at the same time.
Fifty-two-year-old investment manager Howard Aschwald of Belvedere says he saved close to six-thousand dollars on laser eye surgery and a heart screening in Mumbai, India.
Experts, however, warn about the danger of unregulated facilities.
And a spokesman for the California Medical Association says the practice will not likely solve California's health care woes.
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