Health Care: Cheaper in India

Karlyn Zimbleman, a farmer's wife from Montana, found it was cheaper to fly to New Dehli, India for a hip replacement than it was to get her hip replaced under her current insurance in the United States.

To read more of Karlyn's story, visit: http://www.seiu.org/changethatworks/montana/blog/

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[hwabaj]

very true..really health care is top class in India and thanks to law enforcement authorities in India and Indian Medical Association.

In India there are no middlemen in the system like insurance agents.

[njmurli]

No need to use our Nukes, if we collectively take a piss on your country you will sink. Sorry to fellow Indians for using the same language as this dumb idiot.

[yakyakyak69]

Why HC is cheaper in India:

1) It's CRAP!

2) US has MORE trial lawyers per capita than ANY other nation ON EARTH which 1) forces providers to engage in WASTFUL Defensive Medicine which is almost HALF the cost of ALL healthcare and 2) Makes US provider INSURANCE the MOST expensive on the Planet and the PASS ON THESE COSTS!!

3) US GOV'T spends MORE on Health Care than ANY other nation on Earth REMOVING any incentive to innovate and reduce costs!

4) Progressive Central Planning!

[medhisanjeev]

anyways everyone who wants to visit india for a some treatment are all welcome here with arms wide open!!!!!!!!!

[biggerturtle]

@medhisanjeev We eat Indians for lunch They taste best barbacued so we can chew the skinny bones

[saajanjohn123]

Even the 'Father of surgery ' is Sushruta , an Indian .He's also called father of plastic surgery. In his book Sushruta Samhita written in Sanskrit, he described over 120 surgical instruments, 300 surgical procedures and classifies human surgery into 8 categories. He performed Plastic Surgeries, Cataract operations and Cesarean in in 800 BC!!!

Many surgical practices and even tools that the west use now are modified versions of his tools!! And dumbass like you say Indians are dumb.

[Skyknight12]

@GodAndtheRepublic

You know nothing about India. Just like Aristotle when he said that men have more teeth than women. He could have avoided that error simply by asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He didn't because he thought that he knew and that there was no need for research or confirmation. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't, is probably the most glaring indication of a misguided person.

[Skyknight12]

@KARStarla

Maybe your friend visited the wrong places. Are you claiming that there are no sections in America where standard of living is very low and crime is high? Where kids drop out of school to join street gangs? Where school going kids take and sell drugs? And if a visitor who didn't know any better only saw these places, naturally they are going to be sickened. So should they judge your whole country on basis of these particular places?

[aryanc77]

Its a Classic case of the poor helping the rich get richer , govt taxes the poor and discounts education for doctors , finally they specialize and take home annual single income in excess of 300 K see surgeons and anesthesiologists ( affluence in the US wiki), while slowly themselves getting marginalized or going on welfare . Should it not be that a tax system allows this category of people with access to aid to return the help that they got from taxpayers.

[medhisanjeev]

@GodAndtheRepublic

You guys are hated by everyone, Russia, china, the whole of islamic world, even your neighbours hate you. I dont know about indians. Even i have lots of white and christian american friends. But i hate you. And i think you have no right to live. You should be exterminated from this beautifull earth of ours for breeding hatred. You guys have self destructing behaviour