Number of uninsured Americans keeps increasing, and it has crossed 50 million. HealthNews analyzes various health care options for the uninsured: health savings accounts (HSAs), medical discount savings cards, High Deductible, Catastrophic Policies, medical sharing program, and medical tourism. Medical tourism or medical travel, is where people choose to travel outside their home place for medical procedures. The main reason is the cost. Depending on the destination place, the cost savings are 30 to 90 percent even including travel and accommodation expenses. Heallthbase offers over 200 medical, dental, cosmetic and bariatric procedures in 21 countries, and works with only accredited facilities, and highly experienced doctors, who often trained in USA or Europe.

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Obtaining health care in foreign countries is, according to the book Patients Beyond Borders by Josef Woodman, less costly for a number of reasons: standards of living are more modest, doctors and staff command lower wages, government-subsidized health care keeps private health care costs down, and malpractice attorneys are, if not docile, at least considerably more restrained. A fortuitous confluence of actions that allow medical tourism to flourish across the world.

While you can arrange all aspects of a trip abroad for medical services, many opt to use a medical tourism facilitator. Medical tourism facilitators are a new breed; assisting patients, employers, and insurers in finding trusted overseas facilities. The advantage of using a facilitator is their expertise and knowledge, and referrals to accredited and certified foreign providers. While there are a large number of facilitators, finding a reputable one can be difficult. Try Healthbase: Healthcare Beyond Boundaries, an award-winning facilitator which operates in the U.S.


Source: HealthNews