Food for thought! Significant health tourism and health migration is a fact! The concern, who pays for considerable medical expenses can not easily or entirely be dismissed.
"Australia is one of the few countries that evaluates immigrants’ visas based on their medical needs—and the cost of their care.
The government will typically deny visas if medical care will cost more than A$86,000 (US$57,000) over a maximum of 10 years.
The government says the law is necessary to curb overspending and protect health care access for citizens.
But advocates say the law is discriminatory: The country’s Migration Act is exempt from its own Disability Discrimination Act. ..."
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