Comments on: Will Medical Tourism Industry Realize Benefits From Passage of Government-Run Health Care Bill? http://bobmccarty.com/2009/11/23/will-medical-tourism-industry-benefit-from-government-run-health-care/ Humor, Politics, Culture & Capitalism @BobMcCarty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hotoffthepress2 http://bobmccarty.com/2009/11/23/will-medical-tourism-industry-benefit-from-government-run-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-18818 hotoffthepress2 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:57:22 +0000 http://bobmccarty.com/?p=21629#comment-18818 Thanks for the info, Rod! I checked out the links, thinking they were real. Instead, it seems like someone had my idea first. I feel like a slow psychic! Thanks for the info, Rod! I checked out the links, thinking they were real. Instead, it seems like someone had my idea first. I feel like a slow psychic!

]]> By: Rod http://bobmccarty.com/2009/11/23/will-medical-tourism-industry-benefit-from-government-run-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-18817 Rod Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:45:17 +0000 http://bobmccarty.com/?p=21629#comment-18817 Hi Bob. I guess you haven't heard about this yet: http://www.the-salvare.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f497bElgklI http://www.patientpowernow.org/2009/10/18/medical-tourism-cruise-ship/ Hi Bob. I guess you haven’t heard about this yet:

http://www.the-salvare.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f497bElgklI

http://www.patientpowernow.org/2009/10/18/medical-tourism-cruise-ship/

]]> By: grumpygresh http://bobmccarty.com/2009/11/23/will-medical-tourism-industry-benefit-from-government-run-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-18684 grumpygresh Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:32:20 +0000 http://bobmccarty.com/?p=21629#comment-18684 I also doubt that cruse ships will be converted to hospital ships. It seems more likely that the Caribbean and Costa Rica will become home offshore clinics and hospitals. Expensive plastic surgery procedures cost 60-70 % less in Costa Rica than the US because of lower labor costs and the absence of the US tort law system. In fact, there is an Indian heart surgeon who is in the initial stages of founding a major heart hospital that could rival Mayo or Cleveland Clinic. If Obamacare passes, there will be physicians willing to relocate to the tropics even if it means shedding their US citizenship. Adding US trained physicians will only enhance the credibility of these nascent clinics. Respected hospitals such as Mayo and Cleveland could also lend their names and expertise. These clinics could even offer insurance plans sold in these small nations to US citizens for surgeries at these clinics. Just think, after being diagnosed in the US you hop on plane and get your hip replacement, and recover for a few weeks in a resort. You then return to the US for physical therapy and pain management. Better than being told that you can't have surgery because you are too old. I also doubt that cruse ships will be converted to hospital ships. It seems more likely that the Caribbean and Costa Rica will become home offshore clinics and hospitals. Expensive plastic surgery procedures cost 60-70 % less in Costa Rica than the US because of lower labor costs and the absence of the US tort law system. In fact, there is an Indian heart surgeon who is in the initial stages of founding a major heart hospital that could rival Mayo or Cleveland Clinic.
If Obamacare passes, there will be physicians willing to relocate to the tropics even if it means shedding their US citizenship. Adding US trained physicians will only enhance the credibility of these nascent clinics. Respected hospitals such as Mayo and Cleveland could also lend their names and expertise. These clinics could even offer insurance plans sold in these small nations to US citizens for surgeries at these clinics.
Just think, after being diagnosed in the US you hop on plane and get your hip replacement, and recover for a few weeks in a resort. You then return to the US for physical therapy and pain management.
Better than being told that you can’t have surgery because you are too old.

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