Medical Tourism and Travel Insurance Coverage

What is medical tourism? Medical tourism is where people who live in one country travel to another country to obtain medical, dental and surgical procedures at a substantial savings.
There are many goals that provide care equal to or greater would the traveler in their country. The savings can reach 70 percent compared to prices in the United States or the European Union.
To help you promote an idea of ​​the efforts to medical tourism, take a look at this article from the New Indian Express last week (7/7/11): Medical Tourism: sweet pill for Kerala.
More surprising, it should not mean that medical tourism is one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry has come.
And as you can imagine, traveling for medical reasons is of course concerned for their pre-existing condition. Unfortunately, travel insurance, not all the way in which the purpose of the trip is to get the medical care.
This exclusion applies in any part of travel insurance. For example, there is no coverage for medical care, trip cancellation, travel delay, baggage, trip interruption, etc., if the purpose of the trip is to get medical care.