Medical Tourism: Sending sick workers overseas could save millions, officials says

Medical Tourism: Sending sick workers overseas could save millions, officials says: "Delegate Ray Canterbury has an idea he says could save the state millions: send sick workers overseas.

Not on a vacation, but as part of a growing worldwide industry known as health tourism: by taking advantage of lower medical costs in foreign countries, Canterbury, R-Greenbrier, hopes state employees can save large sums on costly medical procedures.

'We're talking deep discounts here,'' he said, pointing to studies that show medical procedures in countries like Singapore and Costa Rica routinely cost 20 to 80 percent less than in the United States."