Under 30s mix business and holiday travel ? and buy using social media
http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=431370
Within medical tourism are two competing views- one that says the industry should promote medical travel as a stand alone .The other older view says that medical travel should be promoted as medical tourism with medical care and tourism combined.
Why American Medical Care Could Soon Be Like Air Travel
http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-why-american-medical-care-could-soon-be-like-air-travel/
The bigger problem these days is how much we're being charged for drugs, hospital stays, doctors and bureaucracy, according to an analysis in JAMA, the American Medical Association's journal. Those items have accounted for almost 91 percent the ...
Don't cheat on your travel medical insurance application
http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2013/11/10/dont_cut_corners_on_snowbird_travel_medical_insurance.html
What's worrisome is that about one-quarter of Canadians going abroad will have no medical insurance, says Isabelle Forget, Head of Travel Insurance for RBC Insurance. ?If something were to happen, it could cost you $50,000 or $100,000 if you don't have ...
Heading south? Travel insurance may be the best money you'll spend
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/heading-south-travel-insurance-may-be-the-best-holiday-money-you-spend/article15441396/
There are plenty of insurance companies that will offer travel medical coverage and the costs vary from well under $100 to the thousands depending on age, pre-existing medical conditions and length of uninterrupted stay. About 1.3 million snowbirds ...
Why medical tourists need specialist medical travel insurance: Part 2
http://www.imtj.com/articles/2013/why-specialist-medical-travel-insurance-two-30184/
Ian Youngman from IMTJ continues his review of the use and availability of specialist travel insurance for medical tourism. Globally only a handful of agencies and insurers have introduced specialist medical travel insurance covers, and in the last ...
Why medical tourists need specialist medical travel insurance
http://www.imtj.com/articles/2013/why-specialist-medical-travel-insurance-30182/
Ian Youngman from IMTJ reviews the use and availability of specialist travel insurance for medical tourism. Some medical tourists and their companions believe that that normal travel insurance is all that they need. While this may be true for people ...
UK: Medical tourism provides a lucrative source of NHS income
http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=431368
International patients coming to the UK for private medical treatment are a lucrative source of income for the NHS, but more UK residents travel abroad for treatment than international patients travel to the UK for private or NHS treatment. This is ...
Too fat to travel? Man rejected by plane, train and cruise ship finally bound ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/too-fat-travel-man-rejected-plane-train-cruise-ship-finally-2D11624567
Kevin, who suffers from a medical condition, will travel by ambulance and ferry back to France. LONDON ? He's been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home ? and his family says it's because he has been deemed ...
