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> their healthcare system is cheap but kills millions every year due to medical negligence. This is a problem money can solve though. If you have the money, yo
by amf12 4y ago
> their healthcare system is cheap but kills millions every year due to medical negligence.
This is a problem money can solve though. If you have the money, you can get pretty good medical care in India. "cheap but kills millions" isn't really a problem faced by most people who have the money to afford it.
> The US healthcare system - for all its flaws - has some of the best outcomes provided you have enough money to access it.
> Exactly. You need the money in the US to just be able to afford healthcare here. There are millions of people who don't have insurance (private, medicare), or have expensive deductibles to make healthcare out of reach for some.
- wowokay 4y agoNo this is not true, you can’t be denied medical treatment in the US even if you don’t have the ability to pay it.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoEmergency medical treatment, right?
- heavyset_go 4y agoYes, you can be denied treatment. ERs are just obligated to stabilize patients no matter their ability to pay. Nobody who needs it is getting an insulin supply or chemotherapy without the ability to pay for it.
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- frontman1988 4y agoHealthcare in India also has one very negative aspect which is that more than half of the doctors have qualified due to some form of caste based affirmative action. More than 50% seats in Indian Medical colleges are reserved for "lower castes." It's much easier for a less hard working/bright student to get into the college if he belongs to the lower caste which reduces the quality of doctors so much that a lot of people refuse to get treated by doctors who have lower caste surnames. Atleast in America you are guaranteed you have mostly competent folks treating you, hard to do that in India without doing background checks on the caste of the doctor as well.
- Judgmentality 4y agoHow is this any different from saying you would avoid a black/Hispanic/minority doctor in the United States? The US also has affirmative action for medical schools. If anything this problem would be worse in the US, since it's harder to determine race by name here. Your comment reads as thinly veiled casteism/racism.
- behringer 4y agoI wouldn't even call it veiled.
- dfadsadsf 4y agoYou can go with doctors with Jewish/Asian last names - that way you chance to hit affirmative action doctor are pretty minimal. PS I personally never thought about it that way and it’s probably silly to filter like that for routine care but may make sense for high risk surgeries when you can’t do due diligence other way.
- random314 4y agoAnd the racist shows up. The qualifying exams for MBBS degree is the same for everyone. A huge percentage of medical seats are literally purchased by wealthy parents for their kids. Yet the concern is always about low caste physicians, not nepotistic physicians.
- nxm 4y ago90%+ of Americans have health insurance of one form or another