Medical Tourism

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

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Canadians Pay More for Treatment


Generally medical tourism is typified as patients seeking to save money by travelling. The most common medical tourism is patients seeking either better treatment or faster treatment; in both cases at greater expense that available locally to the patient. This interesting article points out that dissatisfaction with their own public health system is driving canadians to seek treatment in the USA at much greater expense and that fear that time wasted waiting for treatment is in its own right a medical danger.