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Medical tourism has many reasons contributing to it, but whatever the drivers the numbers involved are very impressive. For example India, one of the leading hubs of medical tourism expects nothing less than 2 billion visitors by 2012, in 2005 alone 374,000 visitors have been to Singapore for medical tourism, South Africa has seen 20000 medical tourists in 2006, and Thailand earned 36.4 billion buds from them in the same year. These impressive numbers are testimony to the fact that medical tourism is a reality and is beneficial to citizens of USA and UK... more »

The reasons as to why the Americans and the British are preferring to travel overseas for surgeries, both elective and otherwise are many and varied. Number one is the prospect of cost saving. This table taken from wickipedia helps to give an idea of how much cheaper surgery abroad actually is... more »
