Canadian firms offer Cuban healthcare to U.S. Canadian patients Two Canadian companies are offering to send U.S. and Canadian patients to get healthcare in Cuba for reduced prices. Date: October 07, 2007 Posted At : www.miamiherald.com In the burgeoning business of traveling overseas for medical treatment, two Canadian companies hope to make an imprint by offering healthcare to Canadian and U.S. residents in socialist Cuba. We looked throughout Latin America or the Caribbean for a cheap source of medical services, says Daren Jorgenson, owner of Choice Medical Services in Winnipeg. ``Cuba is well known for high standards of healthcare. Some experts dispute the reference to high standards, but no one disputes the prices. Hip replacement, which can cost up to $38,000 in the United States, can be done in Cuba for $7,600, Jorgenson says. A tummy tuck can be had for $2,800, compared with $5,200 in the United States. Soaring costs in the United States and a growing number of uninsured have emboldened patients to look overseas for healthcare. The Florida-based Medical Tourism Association estimates that several hundred thousand Americans now travel for health services each year. Many countries -- from India to Mexico -- have become popular destinations for patients, and many entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere have set up companies to facilitate the process. Cuba is a special case, because the U.S. embargo makes it illegal for Americans to spend money there for treatment. Three South Florida experts on Cuban healthcare say foreigners with dollars receive much better care than Cubans, but still there could be problems getting treatment in Cuba. And a Miami ophthalmologist disputes the claims of another Canadian company, which says Cuba s doctors are able to prevent a type of blindness that Canadian and U.S. doctors can t. Still, Milica Z. Bookman, co-author of Medical Tourism in Developing Countries, says Cuba has the infrastructure and a well-trained workforce. They re poised to take off as a major healthcare destination for Americans if or when the embargo ends. Cuba already is a destination for Spaniards and Italians and many others, says Bookman, who with U.S. government permission plans to travel to Cuba next month to study its healthcare system. ``. . . They re pushing this -- it s big and it s going to be much bigger. Leaders of both Canadian firms acknowledge the irony of Canadians, who have a government healthcare system in which everyone is guaranteed treatment, going to Cuba for surgery. It s a political scandal here, says Alexandre Sandy Rhéaume, of Health Services International in Frampton, Quebec. ``People are waiting 12 to 18 months for certain kinds of surgery. Rhéaume and Jorgenson say Michael Moore s movie Sicko did a fine job of describing Cuba s healthcare but was flat wrong about no waits for care in Canada. Moore is out to lunch in the stuff he says about Canada, Jorgenson says. For Americans without health insurance, Cuba s lower prices are the lure. A Georgia carpenter says he was delighted to get Cuban care.
Jorgenson Group is Winnipeg-based company (Manitoba, Canada) with a phone number 2049273762. Our data show that the company is located at the address: 885 Main St. The company has a web site: www.jorgensongroupofcompanies.com.
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