As you all know, medical tourism is leaving your home to get medical care that's not offered where you live. In Britain and in Canada, people used to travel to the USA for care that they didn't want to wait for and could afford.
Right now people are leaving the USA to get health care elsewhere, either because it's cheaper (90% less in some cases) or for "the magic cure" -- 750,000 last year.
The magic cure can cost as much as 40 or 50,000 bucks . . . people who can't really afford it are going abroad to try. They're holding church fundraisers. It's projected that within 5 years, 10 million Americans will go abroad for treatments.
If you could go abroad for 2 weeks with your spouse and get lasik surgery, everything paid for including travel expenses . .. would you do it? How would you know if it was legit? What would you do if things went sideways? That's the problem.
The internet has made it so easy for information to get out . . .there's so much hope and so much promise, but we must help people make informed decisions. At the very least they have to know what questions to ask. What proof that the therapy works? What will happen post-op? What costs are not covered?
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