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In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery
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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?
Basically, the Indian government doesn't give a sh#t about the methods that US pharma companies are using to generate more revenue in the US (slightly alter the compound so it's basically the same stuff, and then patent the new stuff).
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#15Are they releasing any patient follow up statistics? It'd be interesting to compare their post-op complication stats to some of the 'overpriced' facilities.
Yes, but to save money, the patients will have to evaluate themselves and send the results back to the doctor instead.
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#16Well 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.
Inflation is increasing the cost of living in India and China. A decent apartment (not luxury) will cost you min. $100K in any Indian city (even C and D tier cities)
While not as expensive as Manhattan or London, relative to Indian salaries everything is getting expensive.
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#17Some frills might be useful when you're having heart surgery...
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#18Are they releasing any patient follow up statistics? It'd be interesting to compare their post-op complication stats to some of the 'overpriced' facilities.
Looks like you have edited your comment since you first made it.
The success rates are high and on par with western counter parts. Also this is a private hospital , I think you haven't visited a good private hospital in a developing country. Many have US/Uk trained docs and quality of service and care on par with that of developed countries.
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#19Some frills might be useful when you're having heart surgery...
Just because their healthcare system is low cost doesn't mean it is of poor quality.
Incidently, if you read the article, you will see such claim:
"Essentially we realised that as you do more numbers, your results get better and your cost goes down," he said.
However, the details on how good their care is very lacking.
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#20Some frills might be useful when you're having heart surgery...
This is for people who are earning 2-4$ / day and for majority of Indians and I guess the same model would work for majority of the world , who would not be able to otherwise afford even a $10k medical bill.