Many surgery procedures performed in medical tourism destinations cost a fraction of the price they do in the first world.
for example a live transplant that costs $300,000 USD in america costs about $91,000 USD in Taiwan a large draw to medical
travel is convenience and speed. countries that operate public health-care systems are often so taxed that it can take considerable time to get non-urgent medical care. Using Canada as an example, an estimated 782,936 canadians spent time on medical waiting lists in 2005,waiting an average of 9.4 weeks Canada has set waiting-time benchmarks, e. g. 26 weeks for a hip replacement and 16 weeks for cataract surgery, for non-urgent medical procedures.