Comments on: Medical Travel – ‘Patients Beyond Borders’

By: Paulo Yberri

Paulo Yberri — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:49:41 +0000

You bring up some excellent points on the flaws in popular healthcare models as well as some excellent reasons for considering medical travel to Mexico, India, and other countries where procedures are more affordable and accessible.

By: Li Deng

Li Deng — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:48:58 +0000

There are no easy solutions for fixing US Healthcare and most likely any changes will take time to enforce. Meanwhile, medical tourism offers a good alternative for affordable quality procedures abroad. With reputable medical tourism company such as WorldMed Assist helping patients with the logistics, it makes medical travel to other countries that much less stressful. Another motivator for medical travel is to have procedures done that either aren't approved in the U.S. like two-level cervical disk replacement (whereas only single-level is approved in the US) or procedures that were just recently approved (like Hip Resurfacing - approved in the US only in 2006) where US surgeons don't have anywhere near the experience of their counterparts in certain countries.

By: Daniel Shaw

Daniel Shaw — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:25:39 +0000

This is a great resource for those brits seeking dental treatment abroad too. I have used example of this on my website http://www.dentalholiday.co.uk and our UK patients recommend it as a good read.