High Costs Drive Americans to Surgery Overseas

Here is an article in the Christian Science Monitor describing a man who is saving his company $80,000.00 by getting needed surgical treatement in India, instead of the United States.

If costs for expensive procedures continue to skyrocket here, it's only a matter of time before your passport becomes as important as your health insurance card.

The patient's employer will pay $10,000.00 of the savings back to him; instead of going into debt for the co-payment of $20,000.00, he will come out ahead financially.

American healthcare providers will not like this one little bit. I predict they will claim the quality of care is far below U.S. standards. Sort of like the claims made against Canadian pharmacuticals.

Funny how anything that's bad for the bottom line is bad for the patient.