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Isn't medical tourism a big industry these days? People flying to India or Mexico for treatment?

• riquito 8y ago
  It's not medical tourism if you go back to your home country instead of requesting help to the country you're visiting
  • BadassFractal 8y ago
    Heh that's a good point. Medical homecoming?
  • eesmith 8y ago
    It isn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism gives these examples: > in January 2008, Hannaford Bros., a supermarket chain based in Maine, began paying the entire medical bill for employees to travel to Singapore for hip and knee replacements, including travel for the patient and companion ... > In 2000, Blue Shield of California began the United States' first cross-border health plan. Patients in California could travel to one of the three certified hospitals in Mexico for treatment under California Blue Shield.
    • peterwwillis 8y ago
      That's the opposite of going to your home country.
      • eesmith 8y ago
        D'oh! Yes, now I see how I misread what you wrote.