More Reasons to Go on Health Vacations

Medical Tourism in India for Every Procedure

By now, every one knows why healthcare in medical tourism countries like India and Singapore are becoming so cost effective.  With procedures like heart valve replacement surgery costing as much as a house in their country, Americans are realizing that high quality healthcare is available in foreign lands like India at a fraction of the price.  Health vacations have therefore become ever more popular, and for high cost procedures like heart valve replacement surgery, they may soon become the only viable option for many US citizens.  

Deteriorating Health Care Coverage

In February, a 52-year old woman was awarded $9 million in a settlement after her heath insurer decided to cancel her insurance - while she was in the middle of her chemotherapy.  The reason apparently given was that her weight mentioned on the insurance records was different from the one recorded in her doctor’s office. These people were obviously clueless about normal weight fluctuations. This hasn’t been the only high profile case recently.   

It isn’t only regular folk who are facing the sorry state of affairs their country’s healthcare is in.  The family of a US Marine is fighting to sue the government for his death from melanoma. When Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez got his lesion checked out by a military doctor, it was dismissed as just a wart.  The 29-year old died from stage 4 melanoma; a disease that the doctor who checked him was aware he had, as it turns out from the medical records. 

Reasons to Choose a Health Vacation

From 9/11 workers who have been forced to sue the World Trade Center insurance center to receive basic medical attention for injuries sustained while fighting the inferno, to an insured man facing a $1.2 million bill for a 5 month hospital stay (which was extended because the doctors kept misdiagnosing his case) to a homeless (read uninsured) woman with dementia being dumped in a sordid part of town, American healthcare has enough horror stories to keep you sleepless at night.