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It's not medical tourism if you go back to your home country instead of requesting help to the country you're visiting
by 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 agoHeh that's a good point. Medical homecoming?
- eesmith 8y agoIt 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 agoThat's the opposite of going to your home country.
- eesmith 8y agoD'oh! Yes, now I see how I misread what you wrote.