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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Re:fraction of cost...

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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.