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Surgery Abroad
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.
| USA | Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Colombia | Costa Rica | Cuba | Europe | India | Mexico | |
| Rhinoplasty | $ 6,000 | $ 2,300 | $ 1,200 | $ 2,100 | $ 2,000 | $ 1,500 | $ 1,950 | $ 5,500 | $ 1,700 | $ 1,500 |
| Face Lift | $ 15,000 | $ 4,300 | $ 2,600 | $ 4,500 | $ 4,200 | $ 2,900 | $ 3,000 | $ 12,500 | $ 4,500 | $ 3,000 |
| Breast Augmentation | $ 8,000 | $ 3,700 | $ 2,500 | $ 3,800 | $ 3,400 | $ 2,900 | $ 1,600 | $ 7,500 | $ 3,900 | $ 3,400 |
| Breast Reduction | $ 9,000 | $ 3,900 | $ 2,400 | $ 3,600 | $ 3,200 | $ 3,000 | $ 2,120 | $ 8,000 | $ 3,700 | $ 2,600 |
| Complete Liposuction | $ 13,500 | $ 4,500 | $ 2,700 | $ 4,700 | $ 3,800 | $ 3,200 | $ 2,600 | $ 11,000 | $ 4,800 | |
| Gluteal Augmentation | $ 9,000 | $ 4,000 | $ 3,000 | $ 4,200 | $ 3,800 | $ 2,610 | $ 3,200 | $ 9,000 | $ 4,500 |
Source Wickipedia.org
The cost of healthcare insurance is steadily rising in the USA by 10 to 15 % as a result of which, one estimate states that 45 million Americans may be living without health insurance today. Couple this with the fact that because the cost of litigation is a part of what the healthcare providers charge the citizens, healthcare itself is extremely expensive in USA. Surgery abroad in places like India, Malaysia, Singapore or South Africa is often the answer to unaffordable American healthcare that is bearing down on the common man. The most practical option left to many of us is thus to go abroad for surgery.
Surgery abroad is not as uncommon as I sounds in 2006 alone 150000 Americans traveled for their surgical procedures. The good news is almost all of them are delighted with the experience. Because the major publicity these centers offering surgery abroad receive is from word of mouth they try extra hard to overtake their patients expectations. They most often provide more than what their patients expect in quality and service.
The story is just as dismal if not more in the UK. Here the waiting period before one can receive public health care is minimum 18 weeks. Within this time people with acute medical conditions can deteriorate or worsen. When you compare this with the option of surgery abroad, in most cases since he case history is already in the possession of the destination hospital , the actually surgery can be done within a day to a week, upon the patients arrival there. In the UK too healthcare is comparatively more expensive that Mexico, Costa Rica or Turkey.
When we add to this the fact that air travel has become much easier today than it was even a decade ago and that due to technological advancements and the use of electronic transfer of data, details of a patients disease can be shared quite easily with surgeons in another country we realize the reason for the popularity of getting ones surgery abroad. The governments of the destination countries have also realized the huge potential in this business and according to industry specialists this trend will only become stronger over time.