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India Woos Medical Tourists
aspelling writes "It's not only quality hardware and software that can be done in India for a fraction of the cost. BBC reports that India has a generation of world class doctors capable of doing joint replacement, heart, neuro and cancer surgery at their state-of-the-art facilities. Don't be surprised when your physician prescribes you a trip to Bombay. Indian officials are working hard with HMOs around the world to make this dream come true."
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Yeah! Right! Overpaid! My Freedom and My Prosperity are not the problem. Your Poverty and your tyranny (Disfunctional "Democracy") are the problem. You don't solve the problem of your world with such thinking.
If low wages are a blessing to a nation India is most blessed with this.
There is an Acid Test for what works and what does not work in the world. If things get worse doing something it is wrong. Sorry for your Communist Friends("Socialist") but their stuff doesn't work.
To be fair, the so called "Capitalist" stuff of today in far too many cases is nothing but a renaming of Massive Fraud. There is nothing Capitalist about it. Capitalism holds that investors get paid for their investments, the fact of 1% Discount Rate at the US Federal Reserve puts the lie to the idea that what is going on is capitalism.
To be fair to the Indians, this actually is not their problem. It is a domestic US Problem. A trade war by the US Congress against the Americans. I know this may be a bit confusing so I will explain
If India placed a tariff on US goods/services that caused them to be marked up by 150% (Total Price 250% of Cost)we would clearly say India had a "Trade War" going against the USA. Yet this is in fact what the US Government has done to the US Citizens. Their goods suffer this Tax while none of their competition must pay it.
There is a profound effect here that Indians must recognize as a threat to them. This situation is actually not so much helping India though some may win, it is mostly something that threatens to destroy your economy as well. It already is hurting the America's (Not US) a great deal. This situation rather than being a benefit threatens your survival. You should want the US Workers to earn More. You should want to end the situation where parties enter the US Market and essentially LOOT it being tax advantaged over the US Citizens.
Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.
India's inherently lower cost clan/cast social structure (something the West dispenses with as "nepotism" at best and "racism" at worst) is how they are winning economically. The west's monetization of even its women's years of fertility in the work place (resulting in the lower fertility rates here) has imposed inherently higher costs of life itself. The only question is whether the West has anything left after deracinating its peoples, substituting money for blood. I think it still has the edge on innovation simply because the process of selective breeding against inventive subpopulations has not had its full negative effects. Software has to be innovative everytime you sit down to solve a problem with it. Unless you are just translating a program (and even there to some extent) the only way someone gets to solve a software problem is if you either didn't really solve it or if someone is stupid enough not to profit from your having solved. But in application of invention in an unchanging environment, such as the human body, all you need is the ability to follow rules to some extent.
Now the dangers of this approach to medicine are subtle and profound. The most obvious subtle danger is that as you shift resources away from the original populations that invented the technologies, it is unlikely you'll have the same rate of innovation. This is bad but at least you don't necessarily regress. What is worse is the fact that different human ecologies have different and sometime incompatible approaches to life. The fact that people are unaware of these approaches, and their incompatiblity is what may have caused the autism epidemic and left Indians in a position where they cannot be trusted to fix the problems they bring with them to the West.
Seastead this.
2) Your cost of living is also (much) higher, which is one of the reasons that guy in india is less expensive.
3) The next outsourcing dream destination is probably Iraq or Afghanistan.
4) This will probably reduce the overall number of cars in the USA and increase them elsewhere. As there are more people in other countries the overall number of cars in the world will go up. Since we will eventually control the entire world's oil supply soon (I bet we're looking for an excuse to invade Saudi Arabia...) our oil companies will soon become the richest entities on the planet.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?