"President Bush believes all Americans should have access to affordable, quality health care." source: GeorgeWBush.com
I read another article on the same topic on MSNBC. It's excerpt is as follows:
"Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000—an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance….
Total bill: about $10,000, including roundtrip airfare and a planned side trip to the Taj Mahal."
It’s just way cheaper for one to fly to India for a heart surgery, than to do it at home in the US or Canada for that matter. Many US and Canadian doctors are "foreign", so you can say the odds are decent that if you did the surgery in the US or in Canada, your doctor might have been trained in India by that doctor. !!.
I also heard that pretty recently a canadian gentleman who was on a waitlist for more than a year for a surgery, flew to India, had his surgery done in the best of hospitals from the country by the best of doctors and had an extremely comfortable stay during the entire trip and sure did have a successfull surgery and is now back in Canada in top shape !!!. The cost of the trip was less than what his family would have to incurr if he had the surgery in Canada even if the Canadian Government paid for it in full.. (a lot of the costs in canada for surgery are not directly related to the surgery, but nevertheless there ARE expenses).
So all said and done, I believe that (it may already have started) very soon, Medicare Outsourcing would be the next boom. And nobody is gonna rant about it. The very folks who rant about layoffs, joblessness, market downslide, economic downturm, quality, management styles, profitability etc (just because the jobless sector effected them directly) are not gonna bat an eyelid if they needed to go to India for a surgery themselves or for someone they are close to. It'd be better for them to do it in India right away as they can afford it rather than not do it because of deductibles, premiums, waitlists etc and loose someone thats near and dear. I dont believe that I would hear someone say :"I'd rather die here than go to India for a surgery"
It’s for some reason thought to be OK to make it so expensive you need a medicare plan. And it’s good to restrict medicare plans to the rich and famous. The fact remains that the US, Canada Included is considered a “first world” nation, yet one needs to fly to India to get surgery.
In a recent article published by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on Oursourcing and Profitability, it's pretty ironic that the participants from Tuomey Healthcare System, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, and Modern Healthcare. All pretty notable names in the Medicare Sector.
Don't want your college or your kids college and future to be sold off to the lowest bidder?
Think that paying off people to do work is unethical?
Think that outsourcing is the worst idea ever?
then <strongDO</strong> Say No To Outsourcing!
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