A Huga Healthcare Crowd

Online, March 9, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Fed up with the high cost of healthcare? Buyers of healthcare, Companies, and individuals in the west are discovering the Costa Rica medical travel model and furiously booking space for this years International Medical Travel Business Summit to be held at the lush Los Sueños Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort Hotel in the Central Pacific.

"Costa Rica provides a highly accessible, safe, and low cost alternative to high prices in the United States and long wait times in Canada" says Massimo Manzi director of the Promed Council of Costa Rica (Promed- The council for the International promotion of Costa Rica medicine). Promed is a tireless and hard working non profit organization in Costa Rica devoted to promoting the Costa Rica healthcare model, and the organizer of the highly successful fourth annual medical travel summit.

Costa Rica has become a mecca for medical travel for four main reasons:
1. Quality: High quality health care standards as judged by the worlds foremost accreditation body the Joint Commission International.

2. Environment: Political stability, friendly people,a perfect year round climate, and a commitment to tourism and service that helps support the entire medical travel industry.

3. Accessibility: Proximity to the United States and Canada and ever increasing daily flights provide an accessibility unlike any other major medical travel destination.

4.Cost: The laws and structure of Costa Rica society make frivolous lawsuits and malpractice almost unheard of, thus supporting a cost structure that offers up to 70% savings medical and dental care.

Buyers of health care encompass a wide and diverse group.