Posted on 10/27/2007 8:03:28 PM PDT by mware
Record numbers of Britons are flying abroad for medical treatment to escape NHS waiting lists and the rising threat of hospital superbugs.
Thousands of "health tourists" are going as far as India, Malaysia and South Africa for major operations – such is their despair over the quality of health services.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
But the poor will suffer, but still vote for liberal Commies.
thanks, bfl
That one’s a keeper.
More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year – a figure that is forecast to rise to almost 200,000 by the end of the decade. Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.
Yes. Interesting and ironic that those who will fare the worst under this type of health care will be the first ones to vote for it.
Because some people are idiots, that’s why.
Jim, it is because they think there is such a thing as a free lunch.
"Waiting times had fallen. Almost half of patients were treated within 18 weeks of seeing a GP. Most people who had hospital care did not contract infections."
Oh that is comforting.
India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. But dozens more countries are attracting custom. Research by the Treatment Abroad website shows that Britons have travelled to 112 foreign hospitals, based in 48 countries, to find safe, affordable treatment.Somehow the US, with the best health care in the world, didn't make the list.
The same trend is happening with uninsured Americans. There is a huge difference in cost and availability overseas.
In West Virginia Delegate Ray Canterbury, R-Greenbrier introduced a bill to encourage public employees to go abroad for surgery. Here's a Medscape article with references. A quote:
House Bill 4359 would establish a formal healthcare tourism system for West Virginia public employees. These employees would be allowed to travel overseas for medical care with treatment costs paid, a waiver of all copayments and deductibles, payment of airfare and lodging for the employee and one companion, and a rebate of 20% of the cost savings back to the employee.With insurance companies looking at this also and businesses looking to cut health care costs it may be an option we'll all have to take before long. Maybe we can visit the factories that turn out cheap foreign goods for Wal-Mart while we're there.
Bump
The upside of Socialized medicine - A ten month waiting list for an abortion....
The upside of Socialized medicine - A ten month waiting list for an abortion....
Ahh, in every cloud . . .
It couldn’t be that 70,000 people leaving Britain for health care elsewhere had anything to do with waiting times falling, could it?
Ignorance. As usual, they visualize something for nothing.
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