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Mexico leads Medical Tourism, deficiencies in Affordable Care Act sending Americans across the border
Mexico, January 17, 2018 – Mexico, one of the leading tourism destinations in the Americas is also one of the hot spots for medical care, especially for people from the US who find that the Affordable Care Act left them out or left out procedures that were way more costly in the USA. A report is released that there is a medical tourism boom for Mexico and that as of 2015, about 65 percent of those traveling for medical procedures were not covered by insurance, according to the Medical Tourism Association‘s most recent survey.
The Medical Tourism Index ranks Mexico 29th in the world for its volume of medical travelers. The report in the Pacific Standard shared that, while the Affordable Care Act has reduced the number of uninsured by about 20 million, it hasn’t curbed the medical tourism industry.