So Why Are The Big Health Insurers Against Canadian Style Health Insurance

THE FOLLOWING WAS Story posted in AP News today. My question IS Insurers do not want yew year Obama That Is Socialized Healthcare System and a far cry from the "Best medical system in the world", Then Why Are Insurers happy to send overseas for The Insured "knee-replacements" and "heart by-pass operations? I'm for Obama's plan and KEEPING AMERICAN JOBS HERE! (Ie doctors, nurses and support staff). Screw the insurance companies As They Have us for so long!


Insurers liked to save from overseas medical tourism

Costa Rican Dr. Luis Obando prepared to Perform a root canal is Bill Jones, of Dallas, Texas, at Meza Dental Care in San Jose, Costa Rica. Said he Jones Elected to Have the surgery in Costa Rica Because He Was Able to Save Substantially Compared To What he Would Have Had To Pay in the USA.
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Costa Rican Dr. Luis Obando prepared to Perform a root canal is Bill Jones, of Dallas, Texas, at Meza Dental Care in San Jose, Costa Rica. Said he Jones Elected to Have the surgery in Costa Rica Because He Was Able to Save Substantially Compared To What he Would Have Had To Pay in the USA.

COST SAVINGS

Medical tourism trips offer steep savings, They Do not Pack Enough to Financial Might to play a key role in President Obama's push to lower U.S. health care Costs.

Medical travel cost about U.S. health care providers $ 5.1 Billions in business in 2007, According to Estimates by Paul Keckley, Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. While "significant, That Amounts to less than 1% of the $ 2.36 trillion Spent on Health Care In The United States That year.

Medical tourism yield savings of Cdn As Much as 80% On Some Procedures Compared To Care In The United States. Traveling goal isn't for everyone and thesis Generally trips are not an option for emergencies. A patient's willingness to travel for non-emergency care Often Depends On The savings at stake. With a low deductible and no incentive to use gold from An Insurance to travel, a patient May Have little motivation to make a trip.

Any result from the Washington réforme IS Unlikely to Affect push medical tourism, Keckley Said, Because It Will Lower Costs Enough To erase With foreign price gaps care providers.

By Tom Murphy, The Associated Press
Elizabeth Kunz left Her dentist's office this spring With A Mouth Full of Problems and No Way to Pay for Them.

The South Carolina resident Went Out of Her Way, literally, to find a solution, Which Turned Out to Be in Central America. Her trip to the Tropics IS part of a Health Insurance Experiment for trimming medical costs: overseas care.

As Washington searches for Ways to tame The Country's Escalating Health Care Costs, Insurers are more networks Offering of Surgeons and dentists in places like India and Costa Rica, where, Costs Can Be As Much as 80% Less than in America.

Until recently, Americans Traveling Abroad MOST cheaper for non-emergency medical care Were Either uninsured or wealthy. But The profile of medical tourists is changing. Now, They Are More Likely to Be Covered by private people Insurers are looking to keep Which Costs from spiraling out of control.

The Four Largest Commercial Insurers U.S. health - with Enrollment totaling Nearly 100 million people - have Either Launched Pilot Program Offering overseas travel gold Explored it. SEVERAL Smaller Insurers and brokers aussi Have Introduced travel options for Hundreds of Employers Around the country.
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Growth has been "slow in share Because patients and Employers Have Some Concerns about care quality and l.