Editor’s Note: Recently journalist David Breen of the Orlando Sentinel was compiling a story on medical travel. In the course of his research, Breen reached out to Medical Travel Today’s publisher Laura Carabello for comment. An excerpt of his story and a link to the complete piece follows below. Patients who want to have their surgery for free, with a little foreign vacation on the side, may soon have that choice. Medical tourism, a concept that alarms some consumers and doctors alike, is slowly gaining national momentum, and it will soon be an option for Osceola County government employees. The county’s new health plan, which starts Oct. 1, offers employees an incentive to use less-expensive overseas doctors and hospitals in such countries as India, Singapore and Turkey. The new international feature will cover more than a dozen common elective procedures, including heart bypass, joint replacements, gastric procedures and hysterectomies. To continue reading click here.