Medical tourism has been a trend for medical care for years. The term “medical tourism” can be defined as the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country. Mostly, people travel from highly developed countries to less developed countries for medical treatment. Medical travels have become more popular option for medical care especially for recent years. In the article ‘Medical Tourism’, Stanley states; it is foreseen that the number of people who travel per year for medical care will about 6 million around the world by 2014 (2009). The main causes of increasing popularity of medical tourism can be attributed to the cost consideration, the guarantee of privacy from the destination country
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First of all, health insurances not always provide the payments of operations. Although the insurance provides the payment, sometimes not the entire payment. Medical travels derived from suchlike situations. Since most of expensive operations are not completely covered by health insurances, people prefer travel for lower prices. While people can not afford operations even they have health insurance, some people have no health insurance. It is a common situation in highly developed countries because of financial situation of this people or unawareness of the importance. People who have no health insurance are obliged to pay the bill by their credit cards or cash, which is the money of their sold houses or in their retirement accounts. Instead of this, people take a medical trip for lower prices. Secondly, the difference of costs of operations between countries brings about medical travels. The difference of costs between highly developed countries and developing countries is obvious. People can have an operation for lower prices in developing countries such as India, Thailand, Colombia and Turkey. For instance, in the article “Can You Afford to be Healthy?”, Connell mentions that people can find hospitals to perform a heart valve replacement in the United States for $150,000, although the same operation can be performed for $24,000 in Colombia or Costa Rica (2010). Briefly, the cost …show more content…
First of all, some operations might open to comment. For this operations, people benefit from universal declaration of human rights and medical ethics. Human rights and medical ethics are complementary, and use of the two together maximizes the protection of patients. Nevertheless, there is no only truth for some situations. Governments have different laws about certain operations, hence; people travel abroad to have this operations. Secondly, religion is the most significant factor of the illegality of some operations, such as vitro fertilization, abortion and euthanasia. Due to restrictions by religions, religious governments have legal restrictions. People who live in this countries, travel abroad to have this operations. In a nutshell, the illegality of operations in the home country leads to medical
First of all, health insurances not always provide the payments of operations. Although the insurance provides the payment, sometimes not the entire payment. Medical travels derived from suchlike situations. Since most of expensive operations are not completely covered by health insurances, people prefer travel for lower prices. While people can not afford operations even they have health insurance, some people have no health insurance. It is a common situation in highly developed countries because of financial situation of this people or unawareness of the importance. People who have no health insurance are obliged to pay the bill by their credit cards or cash, which is the money of their sold houses or in their retirement accounts. Instead of this, people take a medical trip for lower prices. Secondly, the difference of costs of operations between countries brings about medical travels. The difference of costs between highly developed countries and developing countries is obvious. People can have an operation for lower prices in developing countries such as India, Thailand, Colombia and Turkey. For instance, in the article “Can You Afford to be Healthy?”, Connell mentions that people can find hospitals to perform a heart valve replacement in the United States for $150,000, although the same operation can be performed for $24,000 in Colombia or Costa Rica (2010). Briefly, the cost …show more content…
First of all, some operations might open to comment. For this operations, people benefit from universal declaration of human rights and medical ethics. Human rights and medical ethics are complementary, and use of the two together maximizes the protection of patients. Nevertheless, there is no only truth for some situations. Governments have different laws about certain operations, hence; people travel abroad to have this operations. Secondly, religion is the most significant factor of the illegality of some operations, such as vitro fertilization, abortion and euthanasia. Due to restrictions by religions, religious governments have legal restrictions. People who live in this countries, travel abroad to have this operations. In a nutshell, the illegality of operations in the home country leads to medical