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>>American hospitals are just big ripoff machines. Same here in India. For all the talk about Medical Tourism to India, it works only because Americans come he
by kamaal 8y ago
>>American hospitals are just big ripoff machines.
Same here in India. For all the talk about Medical Tourism to India, it works only because Americans come here to India with Dollars, and $1 = 70 rupees. Your purchasing power suddenly increases by 70 times.
For Indians in India. Its the same near US level rip off. Sometimes its also hard to not sympathize with the doctors. It takes the best years of your 20's and early 30's to get to be a good doctor, and its expensive to get all those degrees and training. So they charge whatever they have to, to not only recover all that money but also make a fortune worth profit along the way.
A lot of time this is done through unethical means. Ordering tests the patient doesn't need(commissions with the labs), prolonging treatments to optimize for per visit costs, writing medication the patient doesn't need(again commissions with the pharmacy) etc etc.
But yeah, I agree with you. Even In India, Most doctors I talk to want(ed) to go the US to settle there. Largely because of the apparently insanely high pay and perks. One person I talked in my extended family almost talked about it like it wasn't something they had to even think about. If you are a doctor you had to settle in the US. The profession is just too profitable in the USA, to not move to there.
- udkl 8y ago> and $1 = 70 rupees. Your purchasing power suddenly increases by 70 times. Don't want to be a snob, but $1 = 70 does not mean that the purchasing power of the dollar is 70 times. Purchasing power is related to the services and goods you can get. Eg: For $1, you can get a single nissan noodle bar in the US. For Rs70, you get around 7 maggi noodle bar's in India. In this case the purchasing power of the rupee is 8 times that of the USD.
- spdionis 8y agoApologies in advance for not truly contributing to the discussion. > Same here in India. For all the talk about Medical Tourism to India, it works only because Americans come here to India with Dollars, and $1 = 70 rupees. Your purchasing power suddenly increases by 70 times. How is this logic?
- eesmith 8y agoUS$1 = JP¥110 = ISK 107, so the same logic says the purchasing power of a dollar in Japan and Iceland is even higher than in India.
- kamaal 8y agoBy very definition. To illustrate to you. Rent in Bangalore for a good home is around 35,000 rupees a month, comes to around avg $500, its not exactly Silicon Valley level opportunity but a great one nevertheless. In fact you will be a tad little surprised to know that people here fight for US work opportunities(a.k.a known as 'onsite opportunities'), work for a few years in the US, come back and buy homes. Many people even own multiple homes this way. It was all the rage a few years back, crazy workplace politics for this though.
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- hiyer 8y agoIndia is nowhere near this much of a ripoff. Even in a reputed private hospital like Narayana or Manipal the "treatment" that this child underwent would cost Rs.350-500 for consultation and probably another Rs.500 or so for registration if he is a first time patient. In India ripping off a patient is still the exception and not the norm, unlike in the USA.