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of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery
in India Rated 5 stars on Amazon. Howard Staab was diagnosed by his doctor as having “a flailing mitral valve with severe mitral regurgitation”, a severe heart problem that required immediate surgery. Although Mr. Staab owned a successful business, he chose not to have health insurance. So, in September 2004, Maggi Ann Grace accompanied Mr. Staab to New Delhi, India for the heart surgery he needed, but could not afford in North Carolina. In New Delhi, Dr. Naresh Trehan replaced Howard’s mitral valve at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center for a total cost of $6,700, as opposed to the estimated $200,000 at a local North Carolina hospital. Mr. Staab was the first American to have heart surgery at Escorts. Maggi Ann Grace and Howard Staab testified before a US Senate committee on this experience. Read their testimony in this article: Special Senate Hearings on Medical Tourism Patients
Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical
Tourism A practical how-to guide for Americans considering medical treatment abroad. Includes a directory of medical providers in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, Caribbean, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. A Singapore
edition of Patients Beyond Borders
The
Medical Tourism Travel Guide: Your Complete Reference to Top-Quality,
Low-Cost Dental, Cosmetic, Medical Care & Surgery Overseas Another guide book for patients. Beauty
from Afar: A Medical Tourist's Guide to Affordable and Quality
Cosmetic Care Outside the U.S. Focuses on cosmetic surgery. Medical
Tourism in Developing Countries Written by an economist and an attorney, this is a study of how medical tourism can be a strategy for economic development. The book covers: supply of medical tourism (private sector/public sector and what services they offer); demand (who are the international patients, where do they go and why, where do they come from and why); advantages that some host countries (such as Cost Rica, Philippines, India, Argentina, etc) have in promoting the medical tourist industry; obstacles (legal, political, etc.) that they encounter in their efforts to position themselves as host countries; and a review of how macroeconomic policy can actually help public health in host countries. |
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Redefining
Health Care: "In today's dysfunctional competition, players strive not to create value for patients but to capture more revenue, shift costs, and restrict services... To reform health care, we must reform the nature of competition itself. Redefining Health Care describes how all participants—providers, health plans, employers, suppliers, consumers, and governments—can redefine their strategies, operating practices, and organizational structures to unleash stunning improvements in the health value delivered." Michael Porter is a Harvard Business School professor, well known for his publications on Competitive Strategy. Crisis
of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care "America's health care troubles largely stem from a great success: modern medicine can do much more today than it could in the past. So, what's the trouble? How to pay for it." Published by Cato Institute. Who
Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and
the Consumer-Driven Cure The author is a professor at Harvard Business School and a thought-leader on consumer-driven health care.
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World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman - 616 pages - 2007 The World is leveling and the U.S. isn't ready. Whatever can be done will be done. Will it happen by you or to you? Best selling book about globalization written by a New York Times foreign-affairs columnist. Watch a video of Friedman's The World is Flat 3.0 speech on MIT World. |
