Weight Loss Surgery Can Mean More Than Just Looking Better
Monterrey, Mexico, September 28th, 2009
Being overweight brings upon a person consequences that are much more than merely aesthetic. The overall burden of being overweight is usually hard on both health and finances. Luckily, healthcare technology has advanced enough for viable surgical alternatives to achieve great results while maintaining excellent safety records.
Grievous as the consequences of obesity can be, both for the people who suffer them in health terms and for the insurance companies or social security systems that will cover the expenses of all future illnesses and conditions, weight loss surgeries are usually not covered by insurance. This means that both insured and uninsured people alike, must share the equal predicament of having to face, choose, and pay for what may well be a life saving procedure that should be understood in two ways. First, an action that crafts a more enjoyable and healthy future for themselves, and also one that saves them the heavy cost of all economically destabilizing and inevitable medical procedures that will come later.
A study from Stanford University shows that an obese individual will have to plan for at least an extra $40 thousand in lifetime healthcare spending when compared to a non-obese person. This statistic makes investing in weight loss surgery an obvious choice, especially when US prices for weight loss surgery range $15,000-$25,000. However, for an average citizen it is never easy to come up with that amount of money and many people tend to postpone or forget weight loss surgery. Nevertheless, Weight Loss Medical Travel always offers a great deal and is gaining acceptance from Americans and Canadians. Dr. Horacio Guajardo, MD, a veteran in his field with more than 1,500 weight loss surgeries and founder of the Advanced Center for Bariatric Surgery in Monterrey, Mexico states that “Having weight loss surgery with us is always an obvious choice for my Texas patients. We have narrowed down our costs to beat both US and other Mexican doctors, and you’ll not only look better and feel better, but also are likely to have future health savings of five times what this costs.” With US-trained doctors performing these procedures in internationally accredited hospitals in Monterrey, Mexico and charging only between $5,900 and $11,000, the investment starts making even more sense.
As Heather Wicklow, manager at the Medical Travel firm Travel For Care, says “Health Travel has opened up a huge window of opportunity for American patients to get their life back and save themselves from all future obesity-related conditions for a fraction of the US cost. Inexpensive Gastric Band and Affordable Gastric Bypass surgery is offered by top doctors in the beautiful city of Monterrey, just an hour away from Houston.” As the US maintains high obesity growth rates, so will the specialty of weight loss surgery gain more acceptance, and as a consequence, will the Medical Travel trend unravel further.
Dr. Guajardo operates at Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey, one of Monterrey's best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico's largest private education system. For more information, please visit www.hsj.com.mx
Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com
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