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	<description>Travel Abroad for Elective Surgery, Rising Healtchare Costs &#38; The Doctor Deficit</description>
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		<title>The Perverse Pricing Game of Hospitals &amp; Insurance Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LA Times columnist David Lazarus uses a recent visit to an Ear, Nose &#38; Throat specialist as a jump-off point to discuss the problem of healthcare costs. The visit lasted a mere 20 minutes for which he was billed $975. His insurance company paid the doctor $243.64. Lazarus then asks: why the huge discrepancy between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=38&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A 21st Century Hospital&#8230;in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast Company has an interesting profile of Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Bumrungrad is one of the top hospitals in the world catering to medical tourists. In 2006 Bumrungrad Hospital provided medical care for 430,000 international patients. The hospital is state-of-the-art: A journey to Bumrungrad is hardly a descent into some third-world medical hell&#8230;Administrators have spent the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=27&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Doctor Shortage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Searfoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical school is getting more expensive and insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid are getting harder and harder to deal with. No surprise then that according a new survey, fewer graduates of medical school are choosing primary care as their field: Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=25&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Importing Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Searfoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of interesting stuff at The Economist article mentioned in the previous post. What stood out the most for me having already been immersed in medical tourism trends these past couple of years was this idea of &#8220;importing competition&#8221;: He is right that health care abroad is not a substitute for difficult reforms at home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=22&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Million Medical Tourists by 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Searfoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has an excellent overview of the coming boom in medical travel: Tens of millions of middle-class Americans are uninsured or underinsured and soaring health costs are pushing them and cost-conscious employers and insurers to look abroad for savings (see article). At the same time the best hospitals in Asia and Latin America now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=17&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to our blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog offers news and commentary on the growing market for medical travel also sometimes referred to as medical tourism. We will cover the major trends pushing growth in this market including: rising healthcare costs in the United States, a growing number of Americans without health insurance, a shortage of doctors and trained medical professionals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medtravel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4875417&amp;post=1&amp;subd=medtravel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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