How to get insurance to pay? Answer: Medical tourism conventions. Maybe.

What is medical tourism? Medical tourism is when one travels to another country for medical care. There are even hospitals where they actually take the patient around the hospital, and take care of everything they can think of, all in one day! Contrast that with the endless process of getting approval and making appointments, that we are all used to. And when they are not being treated, the patient gets a nice vacation in the bargain.

But would you believe that insurance companies actually foot the bill? Yes, when it save them money over paying for domestic inefficiency. And the representatives of the off shore hospitals and clinics meet with the otherwise notoriously inaccessible insurance exe4cutives at medical tourism conventions.

Question: Is there here an opportunity? Can these new medicines actually save money and even actually reduce risk, actuarially, for insurance providers? Can they be sold on the idea?