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The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing (with mandates) medicine to the extent it is not completive, and we want to exacerbate the problem? U.S. Capitalism refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market economy. It is the right of individuals and groups of individuals acting as “legal persons” or corporations to trade capital goods, labor, land and money (see finance and credit). See http://www.InteliOrg.com/

Very good points. I believe that Medical tourism will have a net/net positive effect on the countries that adopt this form of tourism. There might be some short term negative effect on the availability of doctors in certain area’s but I believe its the responsibility of the organizations profiting from this new industry to offer assistance and provide support to the local people if necessary.

Hi David,

I’ll lend my voice in agreement with Milica Bookman. There is simply no alternative to competiton. A free market always grows markets and puts more people to work. THAT is the benefit to governments, which should be recognized as benefits to the society. In India, for example, the so called “brain drain” has encouraged (not discouraged) more and more people to become better educated. THAT is positively effecting our entire economy for the better, not the worse.

Don Wood, Dir.
America’s Medical Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
www.americasmedicalsolutions.com

In areas where the free movement of individuals is possible a market can always have a distorting effect. Poland’s harmonized dental training with the rest of the EU caused an estimated 800 dentists to leave Poland in 2004 (according to the WHO healthcare systems in transition report). Dental tourists visiting Poland may further reduce the accessibility of dentistry for local people. However, dental tourist’s may also allow a dentist who was preparing to leave his home country to remain and subsidise the costs of his poorer patients. The ideals of a duty to care place healthcare in a better situation than most to sensibly react to the global market.

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