Americans May See Appeal of Medical Tourism in Cuba
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/world/americas/americans-may-see-appeal-of-medical-tourism-in-cuba.html?_r=0
Anuja Agrawal jumped on the phone. President Obama had just announced that he would restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and Ms. Agrawal, who runs a medical tourism company in Orlando, Fla., did not want to miss her opening.
She reached a health care administrator in Cuba, agreeing to move ahead with a deal that they had been discussing for months in the hope that American patients could soon start traveling to the island for medical treatment.
There was a lot of excitement about it, said Ms. Agrawal, the chief executive of Health Flights Solutions, adding that if Americans start traveling to Cuba for affordable medical treatments, it could mean a big economic boost for the countrys health system. For them, theyre looking at it literally like winning the lottery.
...Thousands of people from other countries go to Cuba each year for what is known as medical tourism: travel abroad for surgery or other medical care, often because the treatment is less expensive there or is not available where patients live....