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Originally Posted by drluv1
Canadians don't come here when they need something important done, they get care done in their country. Why do americans go to India to have major surgeries done?
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Apples and oranges, dude.
First, Canadians routinely do come to the US for procedures, because the Canadian healthcare system rations access to those procedures, giving rise to wait times measured in YEARS. By that time, the patient will be dead. In the US, the wait times are measure in hours.
Second, Americans go to India (and elsewhere) for procedures because the cost to the patient is far lower, for equal (OR BETTER) quality of care.
I have been hospitalized twice in Bangkok, Thailand. From a quality of care perspective, I could not tell that I was not in a first-rate US hospital. (There were other clues: the nurses there still wear the severe white uniforms, the signs on the walls are in English and Thai script, the doctors English can be a bit difficult to understand, the nurses occasionally speak "Tinglish", but are completely understandable otherwise...) From a cost perspective, the costs were FAR lower than in the US.
