MITA Annual General Meeting 2008 Guest Speaker

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Medical Tourism is BIG



  • Do you know that the United States has the dubious distinction of having the highest healthcare costs in the world, by some accounts twice as high as those in other comparable nations.

  • In fact, over the last five years healthcare costs in America have risen an average of $2,500 per family.

  • Following in the footsteps of their European cousins, a growing number of Americans are turning to medical tourism for their surgical procedures

  • Every year more and more people travel to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and India, where they can save up to 70% off their surgical procedures. Simple cosmetic surgery costing over $8,000 in the United States can be as low as $3,000 in other countries, for exactly the same procedures and often with better service and care.

  • medical tourism has become the only option for a growing number of those in desperate need of life saving procedures.



  • Recently a 73-year-old British man was told he would have to wait six months for heart bypass surgery covered by the National Health Service or pay $36,000 for immediate surgery. He chose neither, instead traveling to India for the procedure at a savings of $27,000.

  • We hope our members to take advantageon this growing area as our mainstream product.


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