Should Medical Tourism Be Used to Supplement Gaps in Our Health Care System?

February 16, 2015

(The Montreal Gazette) – Could they be the white knights of Canada’s ailing, cash-strapped health care system who will come in, sweep up sickly patients and whisk them off to greener medical pastures? There’s no question that, for a growing number of Canadians, medical tourism spells relief. But experts say a lot more groundwork needs to be done before medical travel brokers should be considered the remedy for a resource-crippled system — or before medical tourism becomes a way to outsource care.