Outsourcing your healthcare

The country that wont eat cows just made that roast beef sandwich I ate for lunch so much easier to digest. Just as they took our manufacturing and code writing gigs, now India is moving in on the western medical community. For a smooth $190,000 discount, you can get that cheeseburger saving bypass surgery, and a complimentary tour of the Taj Mahal, in New Delhi.

Eager to cash in on the trend, posh private hospitals are beginning to offer services tailored for foreign patients, such as airport pickups, Internet-equipped private rooms and package deals that combine, for example, tummy-tuck surgery with several nights in a maharajah’s palace. Some hospitals are pushing treatment regimens that augment standard medicine with yoga and other forms of traditional Indian healing.

MSNBC - India draws ‘medical tourists’ via slashdot

Post by: Brendan | October 23, 2004 | Filed Under everything else