It could be a heart bypass that costs $100K in the US or Canada, but about $33K in France or just $7K in India. Or it could a hip replacement worth $40K in North America, yet just $15K in France or an unbelievably low $5.8K in India. Whatever the procedure, “you can bet better stuff done overseas,” says Guy Esberg of San Anselmo, CA.
Read today’s story in the Marin Independent Journal.
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We wrote about Medical Tourism recently in Manila and Bombay:
http://www.psfk.com/2006/02/medical_tourism.html
http://www.psfk.com/2005/09/botox_on_a_brea.html
I think the program at the Twelve Apostles in South Africa is sort-of the epitome of this trend. The is from Mediscapes and called “THE FOREVER FABULOUS PACKAGE”.
(If you can’t find the link, it is under “reservations” tab on the hotel website.)