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		<title>The Media Imprimatur on Medical Tourism</title>
		<link>http://www.beautyfromafar.com/2009/10/26/the-media-imprimatur-on-medical-tourism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've often been asked if real healthcare reform in the United States would be the end of medical tourism, and the answer is no. Medical tourism and international medical care will remain less costly alternatives and U.S. patients and insurers will continue to explore and integrate the travel-for-care options that are available.]]></description>
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		<title>More Medical Tourism Hype Debunked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used the *T* Word -- Trend -- in the segment of Beauty from Afar that I just posted. Editors just love trends. They love to turn good stories into stories about trends. And I am a little guilty there -- maybe even a lot guilty. After all, I took a story about going to Costa Rica for major dental work and turned it into a story about lots of people going every-damn-place for medical care. I mean, I wanted a book contract and I knew I had to ... extrapolate.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Healthcare and Spiraling Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 Page 5 &#124; U.S. Health Care and Spiraling Costs There is no denying that a public rush to embrace medical tourism could have significant impact for the more expensive or overburdened healthcare systems of the West, particularly for the United States. The healthcare system in the United States has been considered to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 Minutes and Medical Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 Page 2 Fast forward to April 2005, a year later. My phone rings in Connecticut, a little too early. &#8220;Did you see 60 Minutes last night?&#8221; the voice asks. I hadn&#8217;t, actually; instead, I had been sitting in a gymnasium in West Haven listening to my son play clarinet with his high school [...]]]></description>
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