Medical tourism is a topical subject. It depends on which side of the fence you are on – patient , patient with or without adequate funds , on what side of the “patient que” you are on , or is there at queue at all. People travel to foreign countries for products or services all the time . Whether it is someone seeking jewelery or even a salami that is not available “at home” or a Canadian on their way to purchase a Canadian NAFTA Canadian made Toyota only to discover that when the costs are all counted they are ahead of the game financially and even had a sort of holiday or vacation to boot. It may be true that the lovely people at the border may make your like difficult, even if you are well prepared – but at the end of the day you have your car and your savings and that’s that.
Medial tourism is no different. Patients travel to foreign countries in order to receive medical care or medical care , or pharmaceuticals that are not available at home , at a price they can afford , the wait time is too long , or perhaps they wish to have their medical services , and their recovery period away from prying eyes – often in the case of cosmetic surgeries.
In fact , the numbers bear up the increased popularity of “medical tourism”. Recently Deloite – the international respected consulting firm came up with the conclusions that during the fiscal year of 2007 an estimated 750,000 Americans travelled abroad for medical care. In fact the prevailing estimate that by the year of 2010 the number of American medical tourists may swell to 6 million patients.
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Medical tourism not only has beneficial effects for patients treated or their families. Medical tourism can be credited often with quicker access to medical care – in effect jumping the cue. Medical tourism may also afford more privacy to patients in cases of cosmetic surgeries. In addition medical tourism may also provide for care to be provided , due to reasons of cost so that treatment which may not of been affordable to the patient – either the surgery itself , or a fuller treatment or convalescent time is made available and within the budgets of the patients and their families. Often as well somewhat of a vacation is provided to the patient and their families as an added bonus.
One often unstated and unappreciated benefit of medical tourism is to provide positive competition for medical care at home – this especially relates to the medical care in the United States – which is primarily a private , for profit , health care system.
Having an option of medical tourism provides competition to the standard health care systems. We all know that compeition results in “things getting better”. Whether in the case of lemonade stands, the American automobile industry or medical care competition usually , if not always results in improvements in delivery systems , product quality and offerings and service levels. Established players are put back in the game to “watch the ball” or “watch the puck”. The cannot get complacent. If they have gotten complacent or even cocky – then there is a new kid in town to keep them alert . In essence if you were referring to a controlling pseudo-managress with an attitude problem at your local bank – its as if you told her “there are no shortage of other banks to go “.
It can be said that under communism everyone had a job in Russia but no one had enough to eat. Competition helps to keep everyone in check , productive and providing higher levels of service.
So is it with the positive effects of medical tourism even on medical treatment “back home”. Your health care coverage and costs may well benefit from medical tourism even if you never leave home or “the farm”.
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