NEJM -- America's New Refugees -- Seeking Affordable Surgery Offshore

NEJM -- America's New Refugees -- Seeking Affordable Surgery Offshore: "The mainstream media have begun to highlight the plight of some new refugees: seriously ill Americans who receive treatment at advanced private hospitals in low-income countries. These patients are not 'medical tourists' seeking low-cost aesthetic enhancement. They are middle-income Americans evading impoverishment by expensive, medically necessary operations, as health care services are increasingly included in international economic trade"