The website NewsTarget.com has as it’s tagline “Information that Empowers”. And information about healthcare alternatives abroad fits well with their philosophy. They have an article from April 2005 that challenges the commonly held assumption that medicine in the U.S. is the best in the world. The author asserts that the U.S. ranks near the bottom of all industrialized nations, with Americans getting far less actual health care per dollar spent than almost anywhere else in the world. He discusses some of the factors that are causing this, and the resulting trend in medical tourism. As he concludes he warns that one day the powerful special interest groups of the U.S. medical and pharmaceutical industries may be successful in getting legislation passed that will make it nearly impossible, perhaps illegal, for Americans to seek medical treatment abroad, a sobering thought.

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