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1) Wealthier-country healthcare insurance companies are likely to increase their network to foreign providers in order to encourage and facilitate patients to travel abroad to receive healthcare treatment.
2) Increased number of patients will be traveling across country borders to seek healthcare treatment.
3) Clinicians will start to seek a wider-base of patients from across the world.
4) While Thailand and India are currently the most popular locations for healthcare tourism, other countries will start to compete with these countries in the 21st century.
5) More government healthcare providers from countries of high GDP will continue to opt for and encourage their subscribers to receive healthcare abroad. (For instance, the U.S. government is testing a plan to have patients go abroad to save money)
6) India and Thailand have been the most popular medical destinations and Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland have been the most popular dental destinations. We expect an increased number of countries emerging to compete with established countries toward the end of 2010.
7) In 2006, the healthcare tourism industry is estimated to be worth $20 billion with an estimated $11 billion to be attributed to India alone by 2011.
8) HealthCare Tourism focused hospitals and clinics may start to partner with foreign medical schools (i.e. Caribbean) in order to forge partnerships of healthcare at foreign medical schools.
9) Patients may soon find themselves applying for insurance from global insurance providers that provide healthcare treatment in various countries.
10) We expect continued emergence of HealthCare Tourism Travel companies throughout this decade.
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