The Globalization of Health Care

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The Globalization of Health Care Rafael Billini Dwight Smith Elisamir Rivera Broward College Abstract This case is based on the globalization within the United States health care system. Unforeseen by many, globalization has entered the health care system due to the overwhelming shortage of specialized doctors in the United States. Due to the demand for health care services, the lengthy education required to become a specialized doctor, and costs of medical services and uninsured patients in United States it has brought forth services to be conducted off shore in countries like India (Hill, 2013). Services provided by radiologist who read CT scan or a MRI are doing so from a remote country like India as it is in the case of Massachusetts General Hospital (Hill, 2013). The Globalization in the Health Care has grown rapidly and insurance carriers have been experimenting with a platform which offers the alternative of doing procedures in excess of $20,000 to be performed in countries like Singapore. The serge for patients traveling overseas to have procedures done was further researched by Deloitte suggesting that the number of patients would reach 10,000,000 by 2012 (Hill, 2013). The significance of this information to insurance carriers is that it would save them money on surgeries performed overseas and make it viable for the patient to pay the carrier rather than the in country doctor. The Globalization of Health Care 1. What are the facilitating developments that have allowed health care to start globalizing? The rise of health care cost in developed countries and advancements in technology worldwide, like the internet, have contributed to health care globalization. The liberalization of the airline industry in many countries has made air travel affordable for more and more people around the world, which has led to a dramatic increase in the

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