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Article #153: Long Wait Times For Medical Care, Expense - The Lure Of Medical Tourism

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






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