Some uninsured and those with skimpy insurance have taken the risk.......
Don't look for major health insurers to offer such a plan nationally yet.....
......few employers have signed on to the idea of medical tourism yet........ So far, the company doesn't have competition from major health insurers, says managing director Patrick Marsek. "They're not quite keen on sending clients overseas yet," possibly because such programs could upset the U.S. hospitals the insurers currently use, Marsek says.(yeah, like the uninsured will just buzz on over there with their spare change. i guess we just wait for them to offer this great plan, we're already waiting for other stuff-----the govt/corps figure we're good at this waiting deal.
Some employers may be cautious (no, really?)
Not everyone is convinced that employers will embrace medical care abroad for their workers. Regulatory hurdles, not to mention questions about safety and liability, may scare off employers. (imagine that, you mean that's why we have hospitals already here in the usa?)
"Employers will be very cautious about this," says Mike Taylor, a principal at benefits firm Towers Perrin. "Smaller employers will try it. The big employers will wait." (more to lose-----oh but they could take that money they could lose and just spend it here on patients and vote for issues affecting the masses--------there goes the good ole boys club.)
While about 100 hospitals abroad are currently accredited by an affiliate of the same company that checks American hospitals, not all of the hospitals used by tour companies are. And even accreditation doesn't mean that things can't go wrong. Training for doctors in other countries may be quite different from training in the USA.......(hope you get a good surgeon)
While prices are lower abroad, Milstein cautions that consumers should not think that quality is superior to American care.(hope you get a good surgeon)
Promoters of medical tourism contend that the option to go abroad may help cure one of the most difficult problems in America: how to provide quality medical care at an affordable price.(i've got a good idea, let's spend less in iraq and more on health care here.)
After the monsoon season ends in India, Blue Ridge will send a team to check out hospitals to see if employees could have surgeries done there.
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japanese cars were once less money. same will happen to the care overseas, it will get more and more expensive. so while we go overseas to get care for what bush should have approved, our scientific community falls further and further and further behind-----what a great plan. what about the uninsured, what is the plan for those poor people? what happens to our economy, i guess we will just outsource everything???? yeah, this is all about saving the almighty corporation money, aint it. why dont the ceo's and higher ups take less pay and take care of their employees. dont get sick during the monsoon season.
AI
