Thread: Is this the future of health care without some intervention?

Medical tourism. Nations seem to be able to offer inexpensive medical procedures that have the same - if not better - quality of the United States doctors.

Read the article -
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/26/medical.tourism/index.html

Sorry - you may have to type this in, but it will take you right to the story. I think that many may find this interesting - like getting open heart surgery in India for $8,500, compared to paying around $100,000 in the US and $28,000 in the UK for the very same procedure. The doctors performing this are American trained, so they offer no less in the way of skill than a US doctor, and the health care hospital is accredited by JCI, the global arm of the American nonprofit organization that accredits most US hospitals.

So if skill is not the motivating factor for cost of procedures, then what is? Why can one go and get the very same surgery in India by skilled doctors and pay less than a tenth of the cost?

What does that say about our nation and our doctors??

One of the bad effects of socialism

Indeed.

Despite American preconceptions, excellent medical care can be had in other countries as well.

The admittedly few reports I've heard from patients who have engaged in "medical tourism" have been that the procedures were performed successfully and that they were treated with an almost pampering degree of care.

Indeed.

Despite American preconceptions, excellent medical care can be had in other countries as well.

The admittedly few reports I've heard from patients who have engaged in "medical tourism" have been that the procedures were performed successfully and that they were treated with an almost pampering degree of care.