Is this the future of health care without some intervention?

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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??

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

One of the bad effects of socialism

Anonymous · Answer

It says the doctors and hospitals have to pay a lot more for insurance than providers if foreign countries do.  You could also look at cost of living differentials in the various countries.

Anonymous · Answer

Oh dear me, I have dropped some slurppy in the appendix area. My goodness me, someone give me a suction thingee...huuurrrrry!
Whew, he will be O.K. no biggy problem here, we will give him discount! Yes, I am thinking twentee to thirtee dollars even hmmm yes sounds veree good. 
OK I am finished now, tidy up there, nurses while I go and  finish stockeeng the alcoholic beverages...

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Is this the future of health care without some intervention?

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