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Re:Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease by michaelcampbell on Friday January 06, 2012 @08:08AM (#3433124)
> Meanwhile for every case you can find for someone traveling to America, there can be an identical case found for someone traveling to Europe.

You've found 1, which hardly equates to "every".

Do you have any actual data? I'd be curious to see what the real difference is between "them" coming "here" vs. "us" going "there".

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Re:Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease by parfe on Friday January 06, 2012 @09:48AM (#3433447)
Sure, check wikipedia on medical tourism. An order of magnitude more people leave the US than enter to seek medical treatment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#United_States

My point in finding one was that sensational stories about fund raising for medical treatment make easy news filler. Linking to any of them is meaningless!

America has a medicore health care system. We excel in some experimental treatments, and have some great medical centers for those with money.

Meanwhile we rank equal to Cuba on life expectancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

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