On Sep 15, 2:19 pm, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:

You are right: traveling patients are one indicator of
the popularity of American medicine.

Indeed:
"In 2005, for example, Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand served more
than 50,000 American patients, a 30 percent increase from the previous
year."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Indus...2320839&page=1

Northern US residents have been crossing the border to get cheaper
drugs and cheaper medical care for years, and southern US residents
have been going to Mexico for years. But now Americans and their
insurers are finding it pays off to send patients overseas.