The Other Side Of Medical Tourism
Thanks to spiralling health care costs in Europe, the United Sates of America and Canada, medical tourism it would seem, has come to stay. Last year, according to statistics,more than 150,000 patients travelled abroad for health care because they could not afford the same in their own countries.
This makes medical tourism a lucrative business for above board investors and the not so scrupulous ones . Quality is very often sacrificed for higher margins, which puts the health traveller at risk.
There are more than 28 countries offering affordable health care and every day sees at least one more country joining the fray.
The internet is a useful tool for the providers of such services, to advertise what they have to offer. The unsuspecting customer searches through the net and selects a provider who he thinks is offering him the best deal: a decision the poor man might rue later.
The least that the governments of those countries that cannot provide their citizens with health care at home can do is make sure that they don't become victims of medical tourism;put in place some governmental machinery that will safeguard the interests of their credulous citizens.
Dont get conned
This makes medical tourism a lucrative business for above board investors and the not so scrupulous ones . Quality is very often sacrificed for higher margins, which puts the health traveller at risk.
There are more than 28 countries offering affordable health care and every day sees at least one more country joining the fray.
The internet is a useful tool for the providers of such services, to advertise what they have to offer. The unsuspecting customer searches through the net and selects a provider who he thinks is offering him the best deal: a decision the poor man might rue later.
The least that the governments of those countries that cannot provide their citizens with health care at home can do is make sure that they don't become victims of medical tourism;put in place some governmental machinery that will safeguard the interests of their credulous citizens.
Dont get conned
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