In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery

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Post by OGinparadise » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery
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Post by mschuster91 » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

Couple this with a medical insurance system and you'll have a copy-paste model for pretty much every development country (and the United States cough)

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Post by sgt » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

So cheap it almost makes me feel like having heart surgery just to know I didn't miss out on a great offer.

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Post by quentusrex » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

Are they releasing any patient follow up statistics? It'd be interesting to compare their post-op complication stats to some of the 'overpriced' facilities.

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Post by vaadu » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

Couple this with a medical insurance system and you'll have a copy-paste model for pretty much every development country (and the United States cough )

Good luck with the ambulance chasing lawyers in the US. Also, India's drugs are cheaper.

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Post by mschuster91 » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

vaadu wrote: post #5

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

Couple this with a medical insurance system and you'll have a copy-paste model for pretty much every development country (and the United States cough )

Good luck with the ambulance chasing lawyers in the US. Also, India's drugs are cheaper.

Ambulance chasing lawyers? You mean, there exist lawyers who race behind ambulances just to get a mandate from the injured for suing the hospital for any and all possible malpractice?

Edit: No need for downvoting. This behaviour even has a Wikipedia article. I am ashamed living on a planet where such things occur.

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

vaadu wrote: post #5

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

Couple this with a medical insurance system and you'll have a copy-paste model for pretty much every development country (and the United States cough )

Good luck with the ambulance chasing lawyers in the US. Also, India's drugs are cheaper.

Why are India's drugs cheaper? Is their patent system different than in the US? Or does the government dictate the price drugs can be sold at?

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Post by swatkat » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

Couple this with a medical insurance system and you'll have a copy-paste model for pretty much every development country (and the United States cough )

Somewhat related info: Government of Karnataka (an Indian state) has an healthcare insurance for economically poor called 'Yeshasvini'[0]. It covers treatment, surgery and other healthcare expenses for a nominal yearly premium. In fact this was conceptualized by Devi Shetty[1], founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya featured in linked article.

[0]http://www.yeshasvini.kar.nic.in/about.htm#about

[1]http://www.narayanahospitals.com/services/corporate-social-r...

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Post by logn » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

Well you can hire a software engineer in India for $10/hr. I think cost of living should have been at least mentioned in this article.

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Post by kansface » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #3

So cheap it almost makes me feel like having heart surgery just to know I didn't miss out on a great offer.

No no, you should hold off for their Groupon!