Medical Tourism

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

Thursday, June 14, 2007

What an Irony


The American citizen is travelling abroad for affordable healthcare. High insurance premiums and escalating cost of medical procedure have promoted medical tourism.

Meanwhile back home in the US at least 84 hospitals have been forced to shut down because they had to provide free treatment to foreigners who could not afford the bill.The foreigners leave the hospital and the country after their treatment, safe in the knowledge that the hospital will not track them down.




Medical tourism in Reverse