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Leaving Home for Health Care
A Canadian?"They ... told me it would be about $175,000, and there was just no way could I come up with that,"
So, with a little digging online, she found several high quality hospitals vying for her business.... Within a month, she was on a plane ... to New Delhi, India. Surgeons at Max Hospital fixed her heart for "under $10,000 total, including travel."
A European?
Some other refugee from socialized medicine?
Try again
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Hope she comes back alive...
the reason it's CHEAPER there is they don't have all the idiot regulations, the sue happy citizens, and clowns (well maybe just not as big of clowns), who run their Government.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
nuke-u-lar get it right
Gee joe your really slipping on this one. This has been going on for years. In fact Johns Hopkins has opened surgical centers in Pakistan and India both, they can charge less because it is usually a "CASH" BUSINESS, you cut out the red tape and the sue happy lawyers......Originally Posted by Joe Steel
UC Davis has a VERY nice hospital in the Dominican Republic (the CEDIMAT)that will do stints and angioplasty for about 1/4 of what it cost here, once again NO LAWYERS..... Less red tape
Gee do YOU see a recurring theme here Joe......... Get rid of the red tape and get some tort reform............
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." -Dr. Randy Pausch
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I see a health care system which can't take of its citizens. I see citizens who have to put their lives into the hands of foreigners halfway around the world rather than accept certain death in their homeland.
That's what I see.
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LOL! You take a couple anecdotal incidents and extrapolate? Wanna bet I can find many more from 'nationalized systems'? You must deal with the norm, not the outliers.
"The government is a child that has found their parents credit card, and spends knowing that they never have to reconcile the bill with their own money"-Shannon Churchill
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it can't take care of it's CITIZENS because it is over run over with Illegals, regulations, sue happy citizens and clowns in government.
and of course you're in favor to give the clowns in Government the reins to ruin our health care more...but as long as we all suffer together, it's ok, right.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
El De-Ba-Tor
An "earthling" is not necessarily a foriegner Joe when you need an operation to save your life.
Now...let's see if you paid attention to the fine points made by Nukeman and Stephanie.
What causes the prices of medical care to skyrocket out of sight?
A. George Bush
B. Too many rows of corn being grown in Iowa
C. Insurance companies, Lawyers and sue happy citizens combined with unrealistic regulations
D. None of the above
Answer: C
Understanding the need for more economical care many American institutions have opened facilities throughout the world to perform health care at greatly reduced costs to patients.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Nationalizing Health Care would make health care better and more available in the US.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: B
If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you will continue to get what you have always got!
A government big enough to provide you everything you need is big enough to take everything you have!
Seeker of virtue
Yet you fail to see the "why" behind it.
The why is government intervention.
If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and i pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ben Franklin
Imagine what good we can do if we all joined together, united as followers of Christ - M. Russell Ballard
nuke-u-lar get it right
Those "foreigners" you speak of make up a VAST number of physicians in the US. They are trained as well as the physicians here in most cases.
The joint surgical centers are staffed with US physicians (not all of them but the good ones are) that rotate through and them come back to the US. Try and get your information straight for once.........
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." -Dr. Randy Pausch
Death is lighter than a feather, Duty is heavier than a mountain
El De-Ba-Tor
Joe........ah...........never mind!
If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you will continue to get what you have always got!
A government big enough to provide you everything you need is big enough to take everything you have!
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It all depends on how you want to go...Lexus or Hugo....they both might get you where you want to go....one costs 175,000 and the other 10,000....
Its a free country....and your choice....and none of my business and not at my expense....
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Conservatives crack me up. In 2003 the Conservative Republican Right Wing Socialist Congress and President expanded Socialized Medicine in the United States. Now, they're pretending to be against Socialized Medicine.
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It's called outsourcing. And I thought all good Stalinists were against it. Eh, comrade?
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I doubt you could many cases of patients leaving a national health care system for care they needed.
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The reason is greed. For profit health care is all about the profit not the care.
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