Elizabeth Kunz left her dentist's office this spring with a mouth full of problems and no way to pay for them. The South Carolina resident went out of her way, literally, to find a solution, which turned out to be in Central America. Her trip to the tropics is part of a health insurance experiment for trimming medical costs: overseas care........
I was amazed on how his skin quality improved, his skin was softer, smoother, shiny, tighter, fine lines improved, wrinkling beside the lips was markedly improved, his pores shrank.
Nervous about traveling abroad because you might pick up some flesh-eating illness or other? Fear no more: the Center for Disease Control has just released the 2010 edition of the CDC Health Information for International Travel, the yellow bible which contains everything you need to know about staying healthy.......
Rising medical cost has been helping to foster medical tourism for the same reason companies send code overseas: lower cost. Take the case of Terry, a public school teacher in Texas, who asked that her last name not be used. She went to India in June for cosmetic surgery.........
In an age when more and more aspects of our lives are being outsourced overseas, I guess it's not so surprising that health care has been added to the list. Last year an estimated 500,000 Americans traveled beyond U.S. borders to receive medical treatment for procedures as diverse as......
Companies that are self-insured can reduce their expenses by sending employees overseas for certain medical procedures with no compromises in safety or comfort. Similarly, insurance companies can cut costs by outsourcing some operations for their policy holders.........
The Royal Thai Government and the entire Thai tourism industry have expeditiously actioned several measures to keep visitor flows moving in spite of tough economic times and global fears of swine flu. The government has approved measures to help local operators promote more domestic travel and international visitor arrivals. These involve.....
More than 70 per cent of UAE residents would seek medical treatment overseas if they fell seriously ill, according to a survey that reveals a widespread lack of confidence in the nation’s healthcare system. More than 70 per cent of UAE residents would seek medical treatment overseas......
This February, a 26-year-old Californian woman and her mother boarded a Continental flight for Costa Rica. When they arrived at the Sán Jose International Airport, a driver in a white van picked them up and took them to the five-star Intercontinental hotel. But the woman (who asked only to be identified by her first name, Jessica) hadn’t traveled to the city known as the Big Pineapple only to relax by the pool......
Malaysia has launched a campaign aimed at tourists seeking medical healthcare abroad. Dr Pawel Suwinski, Frost & Sullivan, senior consultant for healthcare said: “The recent promotion of medical tourism in Malaysia is excellent,” he said, referring to promotional initiatives by the Government and the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia......
