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"This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is. The fact that the pay is so high in the west is disturbing. " Pay for which workers? More than Physicia
by larrys 12y ago
"This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is. The fact that the pay is so high in the west is disturbing. "
Pay for which workers? More than Physicians are involved.
I would say that the average billing clerk in the US and the average nurse in the US and even the person who runs the mechanical systems and drive the emergency vehicles as well as any supplies (if they are sourced locally) are much much much cheaper in India than in the US.
Separately in the US I know of Indian doctors who could practice in India but fail to do so. And they have even pointed out how much "help" they could have (they actually called them "servants") if they lived over in India. Labor is much cheaper in India. This may not account for all of the price differential but running a Hospital in the US is almost certainly way more expensive than in India.
- philjohn 12y agoSo a better metric is % of GDP spent on healthcare, and the relative outcomes. The US spends a much greater proportion of GDP[1] on healthcare compared to many other industrialised nations, and the outcomes are broadly the same as those who spend far less. [1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?order=wbapi_data_value_2012+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?order=wba...