a. What are the facilitating developments that have allowed health care to start globalizing?
The facilitating developments that have allowed healthcare to start globalizing were that healthcare and insurance have become more and more expensive in the U.S. There have been opportunities for education in the medical field for people in different countries. In the grand scheme of things, travel is fairly inexpensive and quite fast.

b. Who benefits from the globalization of health care?
Those that benefit from the globalization of healthcare are the uninsured and the underinsured because this aids them in avoiding the high costs that can happen where medical bills are concerned. Insurance companies also benefit because they don’t need to pay big money for domestic procedures. The different countries probably benefit the most from having highly educated people and the profits they are making traveling tourists that travel solely for medical reasons.

c. Who are the losers in the globalization of health care?
The clear losers where globalization of healthcare is concerned is the hospitals and the U.S doctors that would perform those procedures at the domestic facilities. There is a clear loss in the profits that they would have received for those procedures.

d. Are there any risks associated with the globalization of health care?
The main risk is more of an uncertainty, which is concerning the level of care provided. Even though the procedures that are being performed are not being on in some “Mom and Pop” place, some patients might still be a little apprehensive because of the possible communication barrier that could occur between the doctor and their patient.

e. Can these risks be mitigated? How?
I feel that these risks can be mitigated by bridging the gap in the possible communication barrier. That can be done by having an interpreter if the