Medical Tourism Takes Flight

Health Day via Yahoo! News ^ | 7/6/07 | Kathleen Doheny

[chopperman]

They used to come here. That business is drying up. Only the filthy rich, the deadbeat illegals from Mexico or the desperate ones who can’t afford to wait a year for their operation in Canada come here now. In the latter case, the Canadians probably don’t yet know about India and Thailand. The rich muzzies are now going elsewhere.

[Northern Alliance]

Thats quite smart. It seems on a 150,000$ operation they could pay the person 50,000$ to go out of country and pay for the surgery there, and still come out ahead:).

Given the smiley, you might be surprised to hear that Holland recently contracted a Thai hospital to do 200 heart surgeries on their citizens which the gov't pays for under their health care system for exactly that reason. I think we will see this happen more and more.