Tasty Destination - Food & Travel

Health care systems are a hot issue in almost all developed countries; often a major issue in deciding elections and dividing political parties. Everyone has differing opinions about what the government should do, when it should back down to private companies, and who should get coverage. It's a muddled issue and no one has a simple answer, but some people are taking matters into their own hands by bypassing their own countries' health care systems altogether. This growing trend in the world, known as medical tourism, has people in countries like Canada, the US, and the UK traveling to less developed nations for medical treatment. This seems backwards from the normal cases of residents of under-developed countries making journeys to the US and other more advanced countries to receive medical care that their home countries can't provide. Now, however, many nations in South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and even South Africa have medical treatment standards that rival our ...

There's no getting around the fact that the United States healthcare system is in trouble. As a nation we spend a massive amount of money on medical issues each year, many more times what most other wealthy countries do. Obama's medical policies have been hotly-contested, and although it recently passed a large governmental hurdle, most people still aren't clear if the bill does enough to solve the problem. At the same time, millions of Americans go without healthcare due to the prohibitive expense, and the health insurance than many people carry is insufficient, especially for lower income mothers and the elderly. Due to all of these issues and many more, people are looking outside of the United States for their costly medical issues, and it's actually created something of a medical tourism industry. The basic idea is to find a country with quality doctors that can perform your required procedure at a fraction of the American price. You travel there, have the procedu...