How Traveling to Singapore Could Save Your Life

Apparent Need for Affordable Heart Bypass Surgery

Heart disease remains the number one cause of death in the United States.  Some conditions that put people at higher risk for heart disease include:

·      family history of heart attacks or strokes

·      high blood pressure or high cholesterol

·      diabetes

·      obesity, specifically 32in+ waist (women) or 37in+ waist (men)

·      smoking

There are other factors, but in today’s society, obesity—which often leads to diabetes—is a rapidly growing threat to American cardiovascular health.  According to the American Heart Association, more than 325,000 people have recurrent heart attacks every year.  It’s uncertain how many of those are due to either obesity or diabetes, but that’s a fairly significant number of secondary procedures for heart patients who may not have the insurance or the coverage to afford a needed heart bypass surgery.  

Cheap Health Care in Singapore

Few procedures are more expensive (and more dangerous) than heart surgeries, but offers for affordable heart bypass surgery should not be entertained lightly.  Having a single, double, or triple bypass surgery could save your life, when the procedure is done correctly.  Done improperly, it could ruin or end your life.  Of course, cheap health care doesn’t necessarily mean lesser quality treatment.  Paying an affordable price for your heart bypass surgery doesn’t mean that the Singaporean doctor performing the procedure has had any less training or experience than his or her US counterpart.  In fact, some Singaporean doctors have even more experience, because more patients can afford to visit them for their health care needs.

There are anomalies like former-Vice President Dick Cheney, who has undergone multiple bypass surgeries between his first and fifth heart attacks.  Cheney’s situation led Dr. Clyde Yancy, Baylor University Medical Center cardiologist, to note, “…despite the best care, there are some patients who continue to have problems.”  Most American’s would be financially burdened after the 1^st surgery and certainly by the 5^th.  Cheney is an anomaly in that respect, too, having far more affordable access to heart bypass surgery than the average patient.  For you or I, a medical vacation to Singapore is more likely to provide health care we can afford.

“I’m Scared, Is My Medical Vacation Going to be Dangerous?”

If you are wondering whether or not medical vacations are dangerous, you’re on the right path.  You owe it to yourself to ask that type of question, and the hospital you choose for an affordable heart bypass surgery owes it to you to prove that their cheaper health care isn’t any less safe than what you’d receive here in the States.  As the number of medical tourists continues to grow, procedures will likely become more affordable for patients.  In some cases insurers are adding medical vacations to their coverage.  It’s comforting to know that safe, cheap health care is available even if you’re not a former Vice President of the United States.