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Then how do you explain countries like India where it's drastically affordable and high quality at the same time?
by neya 7y ago
Then how do you explain countries like India where it's drastically affordable and high quality at the same time?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoYou pay at the entrance, not at the exit. Also, standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower.
- techie128 7y agoI am sure you have data to back up your claim that "standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower." Care to post it?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI’ve only been in the hospital in India once (food poisoning), but everything was vastly different from the states. It was pretty cheap, and I had to pay up front. Fairly sure Indian doctors make much less than American ones, because I don’t have the empirical evidence of that that you are looking for.
- thatfrenchguy 7y agoIdk, doctors in France are literally 10x cheaper and the standard of care is actually higher. The US has a big cost control issue even for your PCP.
- neya 7y agoThis is simply not true enough to be generalized. In most hospitals always pay at the exit unless you weren't there for some pre defined checkup package instead of proper consulting.
- rayiner 7y agoYou can’t compare the costs of labor-intensive services across countries with dramatically different labor costs. When we lived in Bangladesh, my dad made maybe $40,000/year (in today’s money). My mom stayed home and we had a full time live in cook, nanny, and housekeeper.