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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (2346)10/26/2007 11:21:40 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
re: I agree with that as well. But even if we had your system, our costs could never compete with India or Thailand and the tourism would continue. Your system would not pay for the procedures in question any more than the current one does so folks would get them where they cost less. The relative cost of an appendectomy isn't a factor in tourism.

Not all medical tourism is cosmetic... and of course it isn't emergency. I'm not an expert on this (and frankly don't want to do the research to become one). But i have read article where they talk about serious medical procedures where US citizens are going to developing nations.

...but what middle class patients do says a lot. Middle class patients do come here for access and other markers of quality. Our middle class patients get their standard care at home.

I would like to see the numbers. I suspect they would be less than 1/10 of 1% of all medical care. But I could be wrong.
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