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Universal Health Care?are You Looking Forward To “medical Tourism” ?

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Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:45
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Medical Tourism Today
Short wait times are also a major benefit of medical tourism. This is especially true in countries that have socialized medicine. Patients in England or Canada, for example, often have to wait months, sometimes years, for a simple MRI. When the same patients travel to popular medical tourism destinations, they can receive treatment almost as soon as they get off the plane. At Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, for example, the average wait time for a walk-in patient (i.e., a patient who hasn’t made any type of reservation), is approximately 17 minutes. This type of convenience is hard to beat.

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7 Responses to “Universal Health Care?are You Looking Forward To “medical Tourism” ?”

  1. Answerma said on Friday, December 4, 2009, 13:10

    Did you know that your statement is full of inaccuracy’s, misinformation and/or down right lies. As a matter of fact the U.S. is number one in cost of health care and yet can only manage 14th in quality of care. World Health Organization. Did you also see that many Americans are traveling abroad because they can receive better care, cheaper at many of those places that you mentioned. Get some facts jack, cause I got them including sources.

  2. FatBoy said on Friday, December 4, 2009, 19:46

    Someone that has never been treated by a doctor in the US, nothing better to have to wait for two months for a “specialist” that insurance won’t even pay for come in and tell you that your tumor is inoperable.
    So yeah, I’ll take my chances with Universal/Socialized Health Care any day of the week.

  3. Anonymous said on Friday, December 4, 2009, 20:57

    Why would anyone want socialized medicine. The reason Americans live longer than anybody else in the world is becasue of our current system.

  4. g said on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:08

    why is it when I talk to a conservative in the US… I hear all these horror stories about social health care… but when I ask people I know who live in some of these countries with social health care, they like it?
    no reports of long, huge waits? weird?
    and also, medical tourism is also becoming big business from the US… costs in those other countries are often 5 times cheaper for the same surgery… take a trip and get surgery done… at half the cost of just surgery here in the US…
    CAN YOU EVER STOP LYING PEOPLE?
    the US clearly ranks 46TH IN LIFE EXPECTANCY according to the CIA?https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac…
    THIS IF ANYTHING IS AN ARGUMENT FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE, as most countries above us on the list HAVE SOCIAL MEDICINE?
    it’s like I’m playing cards with little kids here?

  5. Buffy Summers said on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 6:48

    HeY, I grew up on Army posts where we had Universal Care for dependents. It was AWFUL.
    People who want it should try going to an Emergency Room in a large city on Saturday night. That is what is will feel like to try to see a doctor for a regular visit. Hours of interminable waiting, and 5 minutes of attention.

  6. Mateo said on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 12:55

    I’m from Canada, and I can tell you from experience you don’t have to wait years for an MRI. During times of extreme labour shortages, you may have to wait a couple months however.
    This has nothing to do with socialized medicine, becuase in Canada health care is the provinces responsibility, NOT the Federal governments. My province (Alberta) doesn’t fully fund the system, and there AREA private clinics you can go to. Other provines are completely different…. so you can’t really generalize all of Canada as having socialized medicine, becuase it’s really not the case.

  7. Lewis C said on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 18:56

    Yep.

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