Americans are moving to low cost destinations such as India in order to get medical treatments. A hip surgery which would cost around $40,000 in America is available in India for only $7,000. Besides the costs the treatment is also quite good.
There are around forty five million uninsured people in America and an estimated 5, 00,000 Americans went overseas for getting medical treatments. Dubbed as medical tourists, they are traveling to hospitals in India, Singapore and Thailand.
These medical tourists are coming for face lifts, tummy tucks and also for bigger operations such as knee and back pain and heart operations. A number of hospitals in America are relying on countries such as India for X-ray readings and diagnostics. The trend seems to be changing and now Americans are looking towards these destinations for getting treated with confidence.
