Healthy Profits: The healthcare bill has Indian outsourcers salivating (ObamaCare)

Medical Tourism Magazine ^ | June 22, 2010 | Shilpi Shukla

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[muawiyah]

It’s a two-way street. GIve another century and India will literally be another America!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Sooner or later, *American* Indians are going to figure out that they should get into the “medical tourism” business. Their reservations are a heck of lot closer than India, and nobody seems to have any trouble getting to them when they’re looking for a casino.

[alecqss]

India was identified as one of 14 countries from which low-cost drugs can be sourced to reduce costs.

They are also of a lower quality and of reduced potency. They give you less cure and more of side effects. Sometimes, no cure at all. I think 40% Indian drugs are recycled expired pills or made of inferior ingredients. Their producers are rightly salivating, their margins will be stratospheric.

[Dallas59]

But hey.....we’ll be “equal” with everyone else!

[buckalfa]

Our physician group has contracted with Athena Healthcare for patient accounting and billing software. Athena off shores to India, Net result is loss of 60 jobs locally. Sad thing though is that we get better patient service and cash flow than when handling the tasks inhouse.

[DonaldC]

Every other industry is outsourcing in the name of capitalism, why should medicine be any different. Yea globalism.

[Frank_2001]

Will President Palin (hopefully;) be able to ELIMINATE this stinking Obamacare monster by executive order on Jan.20, 2013? One way or another, it must be STOPPED!

[Taxman]

When Obongo Bozocare is repealed in 2013, all these companies will go bankrupt.

The Schadenfreude (satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune) will be soooooooooooooo sweet!

[DonaldC]

If it is going to get repealed, we need a new party. I have no faith the repubs will do it.

[CORedneck]

Send more of our good paying jobs overseas. Already happened in tech, now it is in medicine. God help us !

I dealt with a few of these Indians (East Asia) and a lot of times, it is you get what you pay for. Crappy service and many of them don’t know they are doing. I do tech support for a well known West Coast company and they are clueless on our software.

[dfwgator]

Send more of our good paying jobs overseas. Already happened in tech, now it is in medicine. God help us !

Of course, lawyers won't let it happen to them.

[FormerACLUmember]

Claims adjustment with “Chuck” in India.

Just shoot me and be merciful.

[not2worry]

I've traveled the world and other than Africa my travel doc says don't go to India. It is the most disease infested Country in the world.

Had a friend who went to an Eastern Indian doctor and told him he needed to go to a neurologist. My friend thought he said a urologist and spent 2 hours at the urologist only to be told he needed a translator or a hearing aid.

Thank you verrrrrrddddy much!

[Lazamataz]

Indian technological whiz kids. I deal with them. I have dealt with offshoring (which is ALWAYS a nightmare) and I have dealt with local talent. The local talent, Indians who are in America, are at least reasonable. They are not AWFUL. They learn how to deal with American business, American technological customs, and can produce at least average code.

Those that do not spend significant time in America are not worth a damn.

[Taxman]

By 2012, the Republican Party may just be a NEW Party.

If it is to be, it is up to me (us)!

All we have to do is ensure that Real Conservatives (con summos cojones) replace Rinos in 2010 and 2012.

[JimWayne]

The Indian medical tourism industry is also eyeing a share of the U.S. health bill. As more Americans come under the umbrella of insurance and an already long-waiting list of patients awaiting treatment grows, some analysts expect a five-fold growth in the number of Americans flying overseas for relief.

This is the key part of the article. I wish you had highlighted just this line so that it didn't get buried in the post. Indians have sensed a business opportunity here in the form of medical tourism created by waiting lists. Canadians and the British already fly to India when their waiting time is long.

[JimWayne]

The Indian medical tourism industry is also eyeing a share of the U.S. health bill. As more Americans come under the umbrella of insurance and an already long-waiting list of patients awaiting treatment grows, some analysts expect a five-fold growth in the number of Americans flying overseas for relief.

This is the key part of the article. I wish you had highlighted just this line so that it didn't get buried in the post. Indians have sensed a business opportunity here in the form of medical tourism created by waiting lists. Canadians and the British already fly to India when their waiting time is long.

[2ndDivisionVet]

My primary physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center is an Indian gentleman, which is common. He told me about 5 years ago that bariatric surgery in India would be about 5% of what it'd cost here, and that includes a private room, private nurse, etc.. Now that the VA has their own program, I no longer have to pursue that option.

This will quickly be a multi-multi billion dollar industry if ObamaCare isn't repealed by 2014.

[investigateworld]

Of course, lawyers won't let it happen to them.

Actually, if you check certain blogs i.e. "Law is for Losers", you'll see that a lot of legal research is being outsourced to India.

In fact one law school even suggests taking a job there at $8500 per year.