复合题
Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions【B1】 to 【B5】, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 2.
【B1】_____. Factors that have led to the increasing popularity of medical travel include the high cost of health care, long wait times for certain procedures, the ease and affordability of international travel, and improvements in both technology and standards of care in many countries. The avoidance of waiting times is the leading factor for medical tourism from the UK, whereas in the US, the main reason is cheaper prices abroad.
【B2】_____. For example a liver transplant that costs $300,000 USD in America costs about $91,000 USD in Taiwan. A large draw to medical travel is convenience and speed. Countries that operate public health-care systems often have long wait times for certain operations. Using Canada as an example, an estimated 782,936 Canadians spent time on medical waiting lists in 2005, waiting an average of 9.4 weeks.
【B3】_____. Factors that drive demand for medical services abroad in First World countries include: large populations, comparatively high wealth, the high expense of health care or lack of health care options locally, and increasingly high expectations of their populations with respect to health care.
【B4】_____. A forecast by Deloitte Consulting published in August 2008 projected that medical tourism originating in the US could jump by a factor of ten over the next decade. An estimated 750,000 Americans went abroad for health care in 2007, and the report estimated that 1.5 million would seek health care outside the US in 2008. An authority at the Harvard Business School recently stated that “medical tourism is promoted much more heavily in the United Kingdom than in the United States”.
【B5】_____. Some patients in some First World countries are finding that insurance either does not cover orthopedic surgery (such as knee/hip replacement) or limits the choice of the facility, surgeon, or prosthetics to be used.
A. Many surgery procedures performed in medical tourism destinations cost a fraction of the price they do in the First World
B. In First World countries, medical tourism has large growth prospects and potentially destabilizing implications.
C. Canada has set waiting-time benchmarks, e.g. 26 weeks for a hip replacement and 16 weeks for cataract surgery, for non-urgent medical procedures.
D. The growth in medical tourism has the potential to cost US health care providers billions of dollars in lost revenue
E. Medical tourists come from a variety of locations including Europe, the United States, and Canada.
F. Medical tourism is a small but growing trend among patients in many developed countries.
G. Additionally, the medical insurance coverage is not so broad as expected.