Quote Originally Posted by Loyal Rogue View Post
Wow DP, I didn't realize the number of people leaving the US for medical tourism was THAT high... growing exponentially from 150k in 2006 to 750k in 2007 to an est. 6 million in 2010?!?
(btw, your link didn't work: http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...861919,00.html )

....I know it has gotten so prevalent that surgery centers here in South Florida are running radio adverts trying to scare people into not going out of the country for surgery because they are losing business... but 6 million?
sorry about the link to time.com ...seems to only work from within the other link I offered. It is the first paragraph heading 'Researchers have confirmed that'.

And from what I read, it is not 6 million, but over one million, by 2010.

david