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The following story was published in Today's News AP. My question is if insurers do not want Obama's Healthcare System, which is socialized and well away from the "Best health system in the world," then why insurers send the contents Overseas insured for "replacement knee "and" heart bypass "operation? I'm for the Obama plan and ensure the American Jobs HERE! (Doctors, nurses and support staff). Screw the insurance companies, they have so long!


Insurers aim to save for medical tourism abroad

Costa Rica Luis Obando is preparing to conduct a root canal on the Bill Jones of Dallas, Texas, Meza Dental Care San Jose, Costa Rica. Jones said he chose to do the surgery in Costa Rica, because he was able to save substantially compared to what it should have paid the United States.
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Costa Rica Luis Obando is preparing to conduct a root canal on the Bill Jones of Dallas, Texas, Meza Dental Care San Jose, Costa Rica. Jones said he chose to do the surgery in Costa Rica, because he was able to save substantially compared to what it should have paid the United States.

Cost savings

Travel Medical tourism offers steep savings, but they do not have enough financial power pack to play a key role in pushing President Obama to reduce U.S. health costs.

Travel cost medical health care providers of approximately U.S. $ 5.1 billion in business in 2007, according to estimates by Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Although important, which is equivalent to less than 1% of 2.36 trillion U.S. dollars spent on healthcare in the U.S. this year.

Medical tourism can yield savings of up to 80% on certain procedures in relation to care in the United States. But travel is not for everyone and these trips are generally not an option for emergencies. will of a patient to travel for non-urgent care often depends on the savings involved. With a franchise low and do not encourage an insurer or employer to travel, a patient may have little incentive to take a trip.

Any result of the reform to push Washington is unlikely to affect tourism, medical Keckley says, because he will not lower costs enough to erase the price difference with health care providers from abroad.

By Tom Murphy, The Associated Press
Elizabeth Kunz resigned his dentist: this spring, with a mouth full of problems and no way to pay.

The resident of South Carolina is out of his way, literally, to find a solution, which proved to be in Central America. His trip to the tropics is an experience of health insurance for cutting medical expenses: health care abroad.

As the Washington research ways to tame the country's escalating costs of health care, many insurers offer networks of surgeons and dentists in places like India and Costa Rica, where costs can be up 80% less than in America.

Until recently, most Americans traveling abroad for cheaper non-emergency medical were either uninsured or rich. But the profile of medical tourists is changing. Now they are more likely to be covered by private insurers, seeking to keep costs from spiraling out of control.

The four largest commercial health insurers in the United States - whose numbers total nearly 100 million people - has launched the pilot programs offering travel abroad, or have explored. Several smaller insurers and brokers have introduced options for travel hundreds of employers across the country.
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