Great news for Medical Tourism everybody, Health Care reform in the United States is so ineffectual and poorly designed that the most basic results will be that Health Care insurance and Health Care costs are expected to rise almost 70% in the first year according to Deloitte.
The effect will be to drive more individuals and more multinationals to seek solace in medical tourism options. For the insurance companies that are on the ball (and this is not many) look forward to increasing use of the Global health Insurance model and an ever increasing demand for medical tourism. For those of you in the Medical Tourism business you owe a very large thank you to the ineptitude and stupidity of the American government. Although a tip of the hat to the greed of the insurance companies and tort seekers would be a polite gesture.
The first and most basic change that will be felt is that all people will be required to own health insurance and all insurance companies will be obliged to offer health care to all, pre-existing conditions notwithstanding. Bottom line is a shift will take place whereby healthy people will be funding sicker people and an overall increase in the use of the system will ensue meaning a general overall cost increase and by corollary an increase in insurance premiums.
Bottom line is health care reform will do absolutely nothing to reform the true underlying problems of health care in America. It will not address ludicrous malpractice insurance premiums and a tort system that resembles justice less than the megabucks lottery. It does not address Medicare and insurance fraud, and let's not forget billing fraud on behalf of the caregivers. So hooray for health care reform, at least from the medical tourism perspective.
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