Posted on 11/21/2009 10:53:03 AM PST by catnipman
BANGALORE -- Hair tucked into a surgical cap, eyes hidden behind thick-framed magnifying glasses, Devi Shetty leans over the sawed open chest of an 11-year-old boy, using bright blue thread to sew an artificial aorta onto his stopped heart.
As Dr. Shetty pulls the thread tight with scissors, an assistant reads aloud a proposed agreement for him to build a new hospital in the Cayman Islands that would primarily serve Americans in search of lower-cost medical care. The agreement is inked a few days later, pending approval of the Cayman parliament. Tending to India's Health-Care System
Dr. Shetty, who entered the limelight in the early 1990s as Mother Teresa's cardiac surgeon, offers cutting-edge medical care in India at a fraction of what it costs elsewhere in the world. His flagship heart hospital charges $2,000, on average, for open-heart surgery, compared with hospitals in the U.S. that are paid between $20,000 and $100,000, depending on the complexity of the surgery. ......
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Well, now we know. The same place U.S. citizens will obtain health care, namely private offshore medical complexes in the Caribbean.
I can envision it all as I write. Sprawling new Caribbean medical campuses providing high quality medical care by the best and brightest in the world at a tiny fraction of the costs in the U.S. These complexes will also offer high quality inexpensive private insurance policies that you can buy in the Caribbean, even though they will be illegal to sell in the U.S. Just a click of the button on a web browser, and you've got world-class, inexpensive medical insurance and medical care, though of course not in the U.S. Instead of months-long waits at the DMV to obtain MRIs, joint replacement, cancer surgery, heart surgery and all the rest, simply jet to the Caribbean for a world class experience. Finally, I see great investment opportunities for U.S. citizens and others who wish to invest in building and operating such complexes.
Costa Rica is the place to go for world class medical tourism.
I foresee soviet-style travel restrictions on Americans.
Hopefully the USA can help this situation by exporting some of our attorneys to India
Maybe we could all move.
No need to move- I bet with a DaVinci robot you could have a surgeon in the third world doing the surgery for $10.
I don’t think I’d move to any country that would have me...
It’s already happening in veterinary care. Specialist spay/neuter clinics such as http://www.spayaz.com/ can spay a cat for $47, a fraction of the normal vet price. We’re using this for catch-spay-release. A female feral cat had two litters of kittens in our back yard before we were able to catch her. We’re having her spayed and then will release her back into the “wild” so she can defend our yard against fertile females.
I figured that Obama & the Democrats would bring about Shetty health care.
How is your granddaughter?
Thank you.
Emma is doing slightly better today-the first improvement she’s had.
I missed the part about what is actually wrong with her. I saw a post that she may need part of a lung removed. Why?
Bump
Emma and her sister Paige came down with the flu -H1N1- and it developed into pneumonia.
How is she doing today?
Tie it in with a cruise !
The only way to make socialism and communism work is by restricting the movement of people. Their ultimate goal is to set up another Berlin like wall.
Sounds great don’t it?
"Emma had some improvement in the severely affected lung last night, as well as great improvement in the good lung. The drainage could be working.
This is the first time we have heard the word “IMPROVEMENT” since she got sick.
Thank you all and keep those prayers coming. I am going to show this thread and the original one to my daughter when she gets a chance."
Yes you are right. I read several months back that commercial Real Estate was having a mini boom there as American doctor groups were buying up everything and building clinics so that those of us who need healthcare can fly in and get it when we need it rather than wait in line and die waiting.
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