Reduce Medical Costs by 99%: Go to India!
Marginal Revolution: India fact of the day
A bone-marrow transplant costs $2.5 million in the United States. Doctors in India can do it for $26,000.
There was a time not long ago where American computer programmers looked down on their Indian counterparts and believed that American companies would never trust mission critical IT to Indians. No longer. When will the same thing happen with medical procedures. Sure you’d rather have an American trained doctor but if you can’t even come close to being able to afford one, wouldn’t a trip to India be better than going without something like a bone marrow transplant?
As if they didn’t need to do this already, it’s time the AMA and other stakeholders* look at the underlying reasons for the incredible price differential as their market is not looking as nearly as captive as it once did.
[*For our Chineese readers, “stakeholders” means that you have an interest in the outcome of a particular event.]
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