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Medical tourism is booming in Thailand December 23, 2009 Asia is being seen as a growth center in the globalization of health services thanks to rising demand from developed countries as well as the region’s expanding middle class. Asia is being seen as a growth center in the globalization of health services thanks to rising demand from developed countries as well as the region’s expanding middle class. But there are concerns that so-called medical tourism will shift resources away from public to private health care systems. Over much of the past 10 years Thailand has led the growing medical tourism market, as foreigners sought lower cost health services and ready access to treatment.

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