The cost of treatment for lifestyle disease have shot up many fold in India.The way private hospitals charge from patients who have health insurance cover is an indicator of rotten health care system.The doctors overcharge for visits whether required oor not,operative cost of angioplasty or bypass is rigged by manipulating the reports & limb transplant or joint surgery is performed to extract money even when not required.Obama may have its own reason to promote medical care in USA 'however the scams that are happening in guise of cheap medicines supplied by small companies,treatment under BPL scheme & insurance driven private hospitals is no less than 2G scam.
Re: It is now as expensive in India thanks to insurance racket
by Venkatachalam iyer on Apr 23, 2011 06:07 AM
This new trend needs to be discouraged. There are greedy exceptions as cited by Pradeep Agarwal. Four years ago, I went to Curie Institue of Oncology in Bangalore to consult one Dr. Ramesh (a fellow from the North). The lady in the front desk collected about Rs.700/- for consultation by this Ramesh. The man looked busy and even before I could start explaining my Prostate problem, he said he won't talk to me unless I ccame with the biopsy report and then signalled for the next patient ignoring me completely. I felt so much disappointed and upset by his arrogant behaviour and cursed the gentleman who recommended me to him. But by and large, in India, the doctors are not that greedy as in US and are more considerate, service oriented and helpful especially in hospitals like Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Narayana Hirdualaya and other Government Hospitals in Bangalore and in Delhi.
Obama has not explicitly said anywhere in his statement that the healthcare in India is of lower quality. He has merely mentioned that it is "cheap", and that is a fact. So why should we be so "thin" skinned?
Re: Don't misread what he said
by guy giggling on Apr 23, 2011 10:58 AM
The word 'Cheap' in itself doesn't mean anything unless you look into the context of the next sentence where he mentions 'high quality' medical care in USA which implicitly means healthcare in India is not good quality.
Such is the inconspicuousness of the Indian nation in the west (even in the US which teems with 3 million Indian immigrants) that something as serious as a drug resistant bacteria is not remembered when cheap healthcare in India is discussed !
Such is the inconspicuousness of the Indian nation in the west (even in the US which teems with 3 million Indian immigrants) that something as serious as a drug resistant bacteria is not remembered when cheap healthcare in India is discussed !
Such is the inconspicuousness of the Indian nation in the west (even in the US which teems with 3 million Indian immigrants) that something as serious as a drug resistant bacteria is not remembered when cheap healthcare in India is discussed !
Re: Jealous
by Shivam Parikh on Apr 23, 2011 10:44 AM
He said its cheap here. In American English cheap means "low cost". That is a compliment to us! Indian english (incorrect for the word cheap) means low quality. You understood wrong. Media loves doing this! They skip clarification to make us post such comments.
