Comments on: Obama, McCain and Medical Tourism http://www.bridgehealthinternational.com/blog/2008/09/obama-mccain-and-medical-tourism/ connecting people and perspectives on medical travel and tourism Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:40:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Global Doctor Options http://www.bridgehealthinternational.com/blog/2008/09/obama-mccain-and-medical-tourism/#comment-478 Global Doctor Options Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:03:53 +0000 http://www.bridgehealthinternational.com/blog/?p=80#comment-478 It's interesting to me that neither candidate is really doing anything to address the root causes of high medical care costs, but rather looking at different ways to structure the payment of those high costs. As you point out, the normal market response, will nevertheless be to look for lower cost options. Whether that search is lead by insurance companies or consumers. And if those choices are only available overseas, the market will push business in that direction. Global Doctor Options (http://www.GlobalDoctorOptions.com) is aggregating costs of medical procedures from overseas hospitals to help consumers better understand the costs of procedures at various hospitals. As medical consumers (whether individuals or group insurance plans) really grasp that higher quality / lower cost care is sometimes (or often) available overseas, the medical travel industry will continue to grow (as long as oil prices don't cause airfares to go up too much). It’s interesting to me that neither candidate is really doing anything to address the root causes of high medical care costs, but rather looking at different ways to structure the payment of those high costs.

As you point out, the normal market response, will nevertheless be to look for lower cost options. Whether that search is lead by insurance companies or consumers. And if those choices are only available overseas, the market will push business in that direction.

Global Doctor Options (http://www.GlobalDoctorOptions.com) is aggregating costs of medical procedures from overseas hospitals to help consumers better understand the costs of procedures at various hospitals.

As medical consumers (whether individuals or group insurance plans) really grasp that higher quality / lower cost care is sometimes (or often) available overseas, the medical travel industry will continue to grow (as long as oil prices don’t cause airfares to go up too much).

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