This is no BS. Sixty Minutes featured this last year.
>>>If the author actually believes any of the BS she wrote...
Going off shore for medical procedures is indeed a growth market, particularly for expensive testing.
But there are some cautions: doctors in Asia are not used to the larger and less sensitive Caucasian body type. Getting an Asian to pull out deeply rooted white-man or black-man’s teeth could be a problem. And, thus there might also be problems on judging the amounts of anaesthetics. Lower ethics overseas is often offset by out-of-control profit motives of doctors or drowning paperwork and other government regulations here in the U.S. (not reimbursing tests, and this shuts out searching for causes, for example).
Lots of people from Californistan travel (or used to) to Mexico for alternative dentistry. Britons now regularly travel to India for emergency heart operations, rather than wait around and die waiting in London.
The best deal on health travel, to my mind, focuses on reducing the cost of annual testing, and the cost of recovery (high labor). The operations are more safely done in the U.S.
The quality of nursing care (as opposed to medical doctors) may be much higher overseas. For example, many U.S. nurses can’t find the magic spot to take blood samples. Those overseas poke around much less.