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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a0da058-4376-48e2-b24a-df7fab589cb1/E1D9858A-1E0F-4BAC-98E6-5F2AA440B826/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog">A McKinsey <A target="blank" href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Mapping_the_market_for_travel_2134_abstract">report</A> on global medical tourism says most medical tourists are leaving home to seek more advanced and higher-quality care — often the wealthy in the developing world traveling to the U.S. and other developed countries. Just ask the <A target="blank" href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/becomingpat-jax/international.html">Mayo Clinic</A> or the <A target="blank" href="http://cms.clevelandclinic.org/gps/">Cleveland Clinic</A>, which have catered to well-heeled international patients for decades.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog">In total, somewhere between 60,000 and 85,000 people a year travel to a foreign country to receive care, <A target="blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121004330575669909.html?mod=WSJBlog">the WSJ reports</A>. Only 13% of those are people looking for cheaper prices. Another 15%, largely from Canada and the U.K., do it to circumvent the long waiting times.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog">The big question is whether insurers, employers and the government will begin encouraging the practice.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/06/medical-tourism-dont-believe-the-hype-yet/?mod=WSJBlog"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/8624385E-9E77-4928-88A0-D11C9CC3EC06" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1D9858A-1E0F-4BAC-98E6-5F2AA440B826/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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