Medical tourism: The view from ten thousand feet

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 11-12

  Cohen, I Glenn ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL TOURISM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERNATIONALITY; LIVING DONORS; MEDICAL TOURISM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952026419     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0238     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. A. Milstein and M. Smith, "America's New Refugees - Seeking Affordable Surgery Offshore," New England Journal of Medicine 355 (2006): 1637. (Pubitemid 44583952)
2. See D.M. Herrick, "Medical Tourism: Global Competition in Health Care," NCPA Policy Report No. 304, November 2007, at 14, table 1, available at http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st304.pdf;
3. The Globalization of Health Care: Can Medical Tourism Reduce Health Care Costs? Hearing before the Special Senate Committee on Aging, 109th Cong. 1, 18 (2006) (statement of Dr. Arnold Milstein), available at http://purl.access.gpo. gov/GPO/LPS78404.
4. Ibid.;
5. H.B. 2841, 78th Leg. (W. Va. 2007);
6. Tex Ins. Code Ann. sec. 1215.004 (Vernon 2008).
7. I offer in-depth analysis of patient protection concerns about medical tourism in "Protecting Patients With Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient-Protective Argument," Iowa Law Review 95 (forthcoming, 2010), draft available at http://ssrn.com/ab-stract=1523701.
8. Other excellent work in this emerging field includes N. Cortez, "Patients without Borders: The Emerging Global Market for Patients and the Evolution of Modern Health Care," Indiana Law Journal 83, no. 1 (2008): 71-131;
9. T.R. Maclean, "The Global Market for Health Care: Economics and Regulation," Wisconsin International Law Journal 26, no. 3 (2008): 591-645.
10. 18 U.S.C. sec. 2423(c), (f).
11. 42 C.F.R. sec. 482.102(b)(9).
12. These hypotheticals are loosely based on real world events. See A. Gentleman, "India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood," New York Times, March 10, 2008;
13. R.R. v. M.H., 689 N.E.2d 790 (Mass. 1998);
14. Culliton v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 756 N.E.2d 1133 (Mass. 2001),
15. and Complaint, Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. McClellan, No. 03-1601 (D.D.C. Jul. 28, 2003),
16. and R (Purdy) v. DPP (2009) UKHL 45.
17. See I.G. Cohen, "Note, The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing: Reframing the Commodification Debate," Harvard Law Review 117 (2003): 689-710.