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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1588/medical_tourism.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Many Americans Travel to Other Countries for Medical Care' data-article-id='2105'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7938'>Eleven million people worldwide travel to other countries for low-cost medical treatment.</span> <span data-start-time='7938' data-end-time='13313'>This kind of travel is known as “medical tourism.”</span> <span data-start-time='13313' data-end-time='22688'>Experts say people spend hundreds of billions of dollars on medical tourism every year.</span> <span data-start-time='22688' data-end-time='32542'>And, experts predict the industry will grow by up to 25 percent a year over the next 10 years.</span> <span data-start-time='32542' data-end-time='39188'>VISA and Oxford Economics recently studied medical tourism trends.</span> <span data-start-time='39188' data-end-time='53875'>The study found that such travel is increasing because of the rising cost of medical treatments, the aging of societies and advances in international transportation.</span> <span data-start-time='53875' data-end-time='62792'>About 340 new international airports will be built in the next 10 years, VISA says.</span> <span data-start-time='62792' data-end-time='71625'>A company called MedRepublic is connecting doctors with people around the world who need medical care.</span> <span data-start-time='71625' data-end-time='75229'>Robert Page founded the company.</span> <span data-start-time='75229' data-end-time='86021'>“Our software allows patients to use our website so they can search for doctors directly and talk to them," he said.</span> <span data-start-time='86021' data-end-time='92188'>Page says the top country for medical tourism is Thailand.</span> <span data-start-time='92188' data-end-time='95375'>The United States is second.</span> <span data-start-time='95375' data-end-time='104396'>He says the United States is “a country with a level of specialized medicine not found elsewhere.”</span> <span data-start-time='104396' data-end-time='114667'>The recent VISA study says the United States was the top destination for medical tourism, not Thailand.</span> <span data-start-time='114667' data-end-time='129917'>It also found an increasing number of people are traveling to Singapore, Germany, Korea, Spain, Britain, Canada and Israel for medical care.</span> <span data-start-time='129917' data-end-time='138292'>The VISA report predicts China will become the top destination within the next 10 years.</span> <span data-start-time='138292' data-end-time='153688'>Between 750,000 and 1.8 million Americans leave the country for medical reasons every year because of the high costs of treatments and surgeries.</span> <span data-start-time='153688' data-end-time='161104'>Page says Mexico is a common choice for American medical tourists.</span> <span data-start-time='161104' data-end-time='173646'>“For Americans, the main destination is Mexico due to its geographical proximity and the relationship between both countries.</span> <span data-start-time='173646' data-end-time='178479'>The main reason is treatment for cancer,” he said.</span> <span data-start-time='178479' data-end-time='191167'>Many Americans also travel to other countries for plastic surgery, dental surgery, gastric bypasses and orthopedic surgeries.</span> <span data-start-time='191167' data-end-time='195313'>Susy Pozo was a medical tourist.</span> <span data-start-time='195313' data-end-time='200667'>Four years ago, she traveled to Mexico for stomach surgery.</span> <span data-start-time='200667' data-end-time='206917'>“I used to weigh 194 pounds," (or 88 kilograms).</span> <span data-start-time='206917' data-end-time='210167'>I had many health issues.</span> <span data-start-time='210167' data-end-time='213292'>It’s very expensive in the U.S.</span> <span data-start-time='213292' data-end-time='223063'>I was worried because of the security in Puerto Vallarta, but four years ago I made the best decision of my life: </span> <span data-start-time='223063' data-end-time='230208'>I traveled to Mexico and had stomach surgery at the Puerto Vallarta hospital.”</span> <span data-start-time='230208' data-end-time='243167'>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that there are risks connected to less-costly medical treatments in other countries.</span> <span data-start-time='243167' data-end-time='255396'>Robert Page of MedRepublic says his company tries to lower those risks by helping patients talk directly with foreign doctors.</span> <span data-start-time='255396' data-end-time='273583'>“We are trying to resolve those issues with the right kind of information to show that a doctor and a hospital in India, for example, offer the same quality as a doctor or a hospital in the United States.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1588/medical_tourism.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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