| What is medical tourism? Indeed could you become a | | | | expenses of health care "back home" and / or limited |
| medical tourist in the future? Perhaps.Perhaps you live | | | | access or long wait times for medical care and / or |
| in a place such as the U.K. or Canada where either | | | | medical procedures. It used to be that the best |
| there are long queues for medical procedures or care. | | | | medical care was in the wealth industrialized countries. |
| Perhaps as in the case in Canada that not only are | | | | Rochester at the Mayo Clinic or in private hospitals in |
| there long queue lines for medical care but Socialist | | | | the U.K. The brightest of the third world often went |
| thinking makes it impossible and indeed immoral for | | | | to the wealthy countries and stayed on as they felt |
| any one to jump the queue. According the standard | | | | both their professional and financial options were |
| socialist trend thinking in Canada, if a person | | | | more than limited in countries of origin. Not now. The |
| mortgages their home in order to obtain a life saving | | | | world had become a much smaller place with modern |
| kidney transplant overseas, then they are considered | | | | communications and travel. Costs (especially labor |
| to be an evil person who has "jumped the queue".. | | | | which is a major component of any health care |
| Indeed as noted medical economist M. L. Labovitch | | | | system) is much less. Furthermore the industrialized |
| notes that in the" North End Socialist mindset ", that | | | | world has a legacy of an older infrastructure and |
| had this person completed the real estate transaction | | | | labor codes. Everything that is set up or purchased in |
| to travel and party or to buy government sponsored | | | | the former areas of the third world where medical |
| lottery tickets then they would be commended and | | | | tourism is expanding is usually brand new, if not state |
| all would be fine and dandy. Finally it may be that it | | | | or the art. And if outside help or expertise is required |
| may be that you just cannot afford the cost of | | | | this is readily accessible in our new modern age of |
| medical treatment of medical procedure in your | | | | high speed internet communications and |
| geographic and home area. There is nothing new | | | | transportation. Standards of care and level of medical |
| under the sun in the concept of medical tourism. | | | | expertise are generally just as high as and sometimes |
| Indeed the first recorded examples of medical | | | | even higher than at home in the industrialized wealthy |
| tourism date back thousands of yeas when Greek | | | | counties. Indeed instead of an old steamy dingy |
| pilgrims traveled from all the Mediterranean to the | | | | hospital cafeteria that you expected the medical |
| small territory in the Sardonic Gulf called Epidauria. | | | | tourist may well think that they are in a luxury 5 star |
| Epidauria was the sanctuary of the healing god | | | | resort. As the New York Times columnist Thomas |
| Asklepios. Epidauria was the first original travel | | | | Friedman noted in 0his authoritative books " The |
| destination for what has become to be known as | | | | World is Flat" , "France can forgot about trying to |
| "Medical Tourism". Medical tourists can come from | | | | save her 6 week worker vacation period standard |
| anywhere in the world including the United States | | | | holidays.". "In India they are trying to figure out how |
| Europe, the U.K., the Middle East, This because of the | | | | they can work 24 hours a day". |
| large population, relatively high wealth. The high | | | | |