Have You Heard Of Medical Tourism

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100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

 

[hortysir]

Solution:
Move to Korea for your Lobotomy and stay there

 

[Katzndogz]

Yes. Most of those are for expensive cosmetic surgery. I really don't care if that tit job is too expensive for someone here. Let them go someplace else.

 

[syrenn]

Ive been hearing about medical tourism since the 80's.

 

[The T]

Guess the thousands that come here better get here quick before ObamaCare kicks in, huh?

 

[old navy]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

There is a lot more to medical tourism than your idealogical point.

One reason people travel for surgeries is they face a long wait time in their country due to socialized medicine. Another is the lower standards, infection rate, and sub-par medical products.

Another thread that is not going how you wanted.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

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[alan1]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

We rank #1 in obesity.

Do you think that might have anything to do with general health and longevity?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

There is a lot more to medical tourism than your idealogical point.

One reason people travel for surgeries is they face a long wait time in their country due to socialized medicine. Another is the lower standards, infection rate, and sub-par medical products.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ1lPPTPSR4]SiCKO - Canadian Waiting Room Scene - YouTube[/ame]

Stupid Teabaggers.​

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

If you want to take your chance in a third world shit hole like Mexico or India, by all means, be my guest.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people.

Which is why we are also the nation that comes up with all these new drugs and cures for diseases allowing people to live longer, or did you think that all came free from Santa and his elves.

After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

Which has nothing to do with our health care system and this has been discussed ad nauseum over and over and over on this forum.

Stop wasting everyone's time with your pissing and whining. If you want the cost of health care to come down in this country without sacrificing the quality, get the government the fuck out of it.

 

[syrenn]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

There is a lot more to medical tourism than your idealogical point.

One reason people travel for surgeries is they face a long wait time in their country due to socialized medicine. Another is the lower standards, infection rate, and sub-par medical products.

Another thread that is not going how you wanted.

Medical tourism started and for the most part still is, for cosmetic surgery. Thailand was the big spot. You could go and have your face and body worked on and then chill out in a resort until all the bruising healed. Then you could go home with your nice new face or body and show it off.

There are serious issues with this however. If you encounter problems or something goes wrong you have zero recourse. So going to other countries for medical may sound like a good idea... its Russian roulette as far as i am concerned.


As for tourism coming to us, its becasue they cant get what they want under socialized health care in their own country.

 

[DiamondDave]

100,000+ Americans travel to places like India, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Columbia, S. Korea etc. each year to get medical procedures either denied to them here or too expensive for them to afford. The trend and numbers are growing.

Know what the problem is........we're the only industriali ed country in the world where over 500 companies make profits off of sick people. After all that we still rank 37th in general health and longeivity.

We rank #1 in obesity.

Do you think that might have anything to do with general health and longevity?

And not to mention the WHO ranking was THOROUGHLY debunked... probably most elegantly by Jon Stossell

 

[DiamondDave]

And of course all. the medical tourism TO the US.. for superior care, superior skilled doctors and facilities, etc... but you don't see the troll OP mentioning that

 

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Yes. Most of those are for expensive cosmetic surgery. I really don't care if that tit job is too expensive for someone here. Let them go someplace else.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Go to the Internet and do a little reading about "Medical Travel" or "Medical Tourism."

One documented story has a small business owner with an arthritic hip he injured years before and the required surgery was priced at more than $100,000 in the U S. He got on the Internet, read his options, received the surgery, 8 days in the hospital, all the drugs, therapy and nursing required plus five additional days of recooperation at a seaside resort in India...total cost, $8,800.

 

[Katzndogz]

Yeah I know all about it.

Medical Tourism | Affordable Cosmetic Surgery | Cosmetic Dental Abroad - Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego Riverside

Great Tummy Tuck.

More patients go abroad for medical treatment from the UK than the US. Why? Maybe socialized medicine.

Now if you look at medical tourism realistically, MANY such destinations are in countries that have socialized medicine already. The medical facilities rely on medical tourism to MAKE A PROFIT. The best doctors, the best hospitals aren't available for the citizens condemned to socialized medicine but reserved for the paying customers.

 

[alan1]

Oddly enough, neither Gabrielle Giffords nor Ted Kennedy went outside the country for their brain surgery.

 

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Yeah I know all about it.

Medical Tourism | Affordable Cosmetic Surgery | Cosmetic Dental Abroad - Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego Riverside

Great Tummy Tuck.

More patients go abroad for medical treatment from the UK than the US. Why? Maybe socialized medicine.

Now if you look at medical tourism realistically, MANY such destinations are in countries that have socialized medicine already. The medical facilities rely on medical tourism to MAKE A PROFIT. The best doctors, the best hospitals aren't available for the citizens condemned to socialized medicine but reserved for the paying customers.

Standard Republican bull shit. It's good for more than 500 companies to turn profits off of the ill and infirm. Like I posted before...the Republicans have been trying to do away with social security ever since FDR signed it into law in the mid thirties. They even managed to get it to the supreme court twice but it was still ruled constitutional. See....someday every single American will catch on to the Republican mantra, "By Gawd I've Got Mine...Now By Gawd You Get Yours." You know.....Alan Kooi Simpson personified.

Most of the rich assholes had it handed to them with no strings attached. Either that or they're too busy thumpin' their bibles to ever wake up and read anything.

 

[DiamondDave]

And those 'rich assholes' get their medical procedures WHERE?? Their cancer treatment WHERE?? Their physical therapy WHERE??

Idiot asshole hyper-partisan twit

 

[Steelplate]

And those 'rich assholes' get their medical procedures WHERE?? Their cancer treatment WHERE?? Their physical therapy WHERE??

Idiot asshole hyper-partisan twit

That's the point.... they can AFFORD it numbnuts.

 

[geauxtohell]

Too expensive to get done here, but cheap enough to afford travel to another country and let some hack operate on you?

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