The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India

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by kajarya • 12 years ago

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spullara• 12 years ago

America is the country staying in the private room subsidizing all the other patients.

What do you mean? Are you honestly saying that medical care is provided for 95% of the planet at a voluntary loss and that the exorbitance of the US market is the only thing that keeps the companies solvent?

Really?! They are intentionally in the red, everywhere else, and make up for it through overcharging the US market?

Do the local hospitals in Bangalore franchise to the US to do so? Do the nurses go on extended holidays to make back all the money they lose? Do the pharmacists go home and night and pack boxes headed for the US so they don't continue to go into debt? Is that how you think it works?

That would probably explain why my GlaxoSmithKline stock is yielding a 6% dividend. Cause they are just that broke.

nilsimsa4• 12 years ago

I think it happens with medicines though not voluntarily. Basically in the US the drug companies have bought out the politicians so the price of medicines are sky high. Meanwhile in many countries like India, the government has negotiated or busted patents to get affordable medicines. The drug companies can live with this as long as Americans pay for the full cost of medicines.

kristianp• 12 years ago

Discussion on this article from 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304019

rurounijones• 12 years ago

"I was surprised to find that “developed” countries have a lot to learn from some of the ways health care is delivered in “developing” countries"

Woah woah woah, don't lump us with the USA. Even among developed countries America's healthcare system is an outlier.

billy8988• 12 years ago

So, basically, what she says is, if you earn in US, healthcare is affordable in India. She seems to think $4,300 is cheap and affordable for all Indians. Only the upper middle class and the rich in India can spend that kind of money. (Only about 25% of Indians have health insurance).

The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India

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