Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research Stanford University


CHP/PCOR News


August 25, 2006 - In the News

In Christian Science Monitor, Enthoven comments on employer-covered overseas care

CHP/PCOR core faculty member Alain Enthoven provides comment for an Aug. 16 Christian Science Monitor article on a new twist on overseas medical tourism: a small number of U.S. companies are providing a health benefit plan that allows employees to obtain medical care overseas, and some are considering plans that would require employees to go overseas. Enthoven says the U.S. healthcare system needs to realize that it may be pricing itself out of reach and prompting companies to make such a move.