Medical Tourism

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

Friday, June 08, 2007

Health care Crisis in the US promotes Medical Tourism


The health care crisis in the US is giving a great fillip to The medical tourism industry–in Asian countries like India Thailand and Singapore, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica.

The increasingly growing costs of medical care and medical insurance has made medical treatment prohibitively expensive in the US, with the result that more people are looking elsewhere for treatment that is as good but only 10% of what it might cost in the Us with the added bonus of a vacation in a foreign country.


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