“Do the supporters of government-run health care really believe we are going to sit back and let state and federal bureaucrats dictate our health care, limit our choices and load us up with higher premiums and taxes while they increase the federal deficit to subsidize government-run health care?
“More of us will find affordable quality health care offshore and, regardless of how hard the president, Congress, governors, insurance commissioners or legislators try to regulate or control it, Americans — passports in hand — will fly away for treatment.
“There is a flood of American patients heading abroad for surgeries and other medical and dental treatments.
““There’s been between a 20 percent and a 30 percent growth rate for this sort of travel in just the last five years,” says Josef Woodman, author of the book series and website Patients Without Borders and CEO of Healthy Travel Media.”
Opinion
Outsourcing may be the unintended consequence of Obamacare
October 1, 2012
Don Brunell is president of the Association of Washington Business, Washington State’s oldest and largest statewide business association
http://kpbj.com/business_daily/2012-10-01/outsourcing_may_be_the_unintended_consequence_of_obamacare