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[Brent: Please do not post links to commercial websites here. Thank you. HGS]
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Thank you for pointing out the necessity of dotting all "i's" and crossing all "t's" which socialized medicine invariably requires. It's way over the top! Sylvia should have gone just a bit further for her treatment and she'd have saved her life's savings. Nevertheless, your major point needs to be heeded by Americans. After the slicko movie "Sicko," there is now a brainless rush to have socialized medicine in America. Nothing could be worse for the patient, the economy, and American medicine. The good doctors will flee to India where they can make a decent living again. I say, get the government out of health care and regulate the insurance industry to allow patients the freedom of choice. Even going to India where the prices and care can't be beat. But then their insurance premiums wouldn't be so high either.
Don Wood, Director
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Bombay, India
[Don: Although I appreciate your comments, I've deleted the links because they are to a commercial site, not a blog. HGS]
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Not so fast:
Even going to India where the prices and care can't be beat.
Really?
The care can't be beat?
I beg to differ.
Hello Henry,
Seems we both have an ax to grind. You're selling insurance and I'm giving away concierge services for patients coming to India for any kind of health care. Yes, I did say "giving away." Our clients are not given any bill. We do ask for a gratuity if they think our services have been worthwhile which keeps us on our toes for all the best that India has to offer. And we live here 24/7/365 so it's hard to fool us. It's also a little hard to fool a hurting patient as to whether our services were appreciated or not.
We do pickup and delivery to and from the airport and hotels in the finest of automobiles and professional drivers. We help design and obtain any ticketing they might desire from professional providers and we've even been known to bring a McDonalds burger into the patient's room. 
We know of long term housing for those who need IVF or other procedures, and the finest private hospitals, doctors and clinics the world has ever seen. There is simply nothing on this scale in America. Read it an weep.
You will need to do better research than cite one fatal statistic back so many years ago. It happens, of course, but by your own suggestion you'll have to go begging to find a negative comparison of those statistics in India versus the United States. It's far worse in the US, and those statistics are public. The Indian hospitals are not even effected by the staff infection which US, Canadian and UK hospitals just can't whip. It might be due to the fact that Indian hospitals do NOT allow flowers into a patient's room -- or even in the hospital. I don't know, but that's only one of the differences between the level of care here and in western countries. I am speaking, by the way, of the *private hospitals*. These hospitals enjoy the highest ratings it's possible to earn in the world, like the Joint Commission International. The public sector is another story, though it's climbing it's way to the top.
You can read the blogs and reports on the Internet from people who have "been there and done that." Any idea on what the level of satisfaction is versus level of satisfaction from western counterparts? Probably the biggest factor separating western from Indian medicine is the social aspect. With such a litigious society (by the way, I'm a WASP), Indian doctors, hospitals and clinics are trying much, MUCH harder. When patients I could give you names for fall in love with the *house keeping* staff, you know that you've found a level of kindness completely unknown in the west.
We pride ourselves in finding the best India has to offer for anyone coming here, and just for starters let me suggest a $15,000 total health scan including the latest equipment not even found in the US yet (thanks to the FDA), for only $1,000. It's coming to America, but it will be four more years. That includes every kind of diagnostic medical, eye, dental, etc., test known to man. Get off the plane, and spend one day in one of these ultra modern clinics (there are five of them in Bombay -- one of them architecturally designed as the inside of an aircraft in Mulund), and you're off to see the Taj Mahal. Including the costs of air tickets, I say brazenly, it cannot be beat. But I will go further this time. It cannot even be matched.
Yes, others in the world can match the medicine. to be sure! But no one I know of matches the level of care, hospitality and medicine. And *no one* even gets close to Indian prices.
The "Times of India" reported just the other day that 37% of the doctors practicing in America right now are Indian. By the way, check the small print on the back of your bottle of meds. You might note it's made in ... India. Of all places.
If you want to get a grip on what's really going on, get a grip on the prices of insurance. We had Markey Davis here from Tennessee who is still a Health and Accident Insurance General Agency who quit paying his own premiums two years ago when the monthly premium reached $1,600 per month for only he and his wife. He knew he had a bad hip and that one day it would give out, but he just started saving his monthly premiums and says it like this:
"If you had a fine automobile and the transmission went out, would you want the mechanic just out of trade school working on it, or would you want the old Master Mechanic? We'll," he continued, "when MY transmission went out, I wanted the Old Master Mechanic and that was Dr. ______." He goes on to say, "I saved $80,000 the way I figure it."
You see, hip resurfacing had been practiced in India for four years by the time the FDA allowed it to move beyond clinical trials in the States. And Indian surgeons had thousands of procedures under their collective belts when Markey needed his done. His choice was no choice at all, and he's very happy with the outcome. He is walking now without even a limp!
I am one of three American directors of America's Medical Solutions and our concierge services are free to anyone coming to India. And yes, we've been patients ourselves of these same private hospitals, so our concierge services are of the nature western guests expect.
Very truly yours,
Don Wood, Co-Director
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Bombay (Mumbai), India
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