LAT: U.S. Employers Look Offshore for Healthcare

[gulfcoastliberal]

After going overseas to outsource everything from manufacturing to customer services, American businesses — pressed by rising healthcare costs — are looking offshore for medical benefits as well.

A growing number of employers that fund their own health insurance plans are looking into sending ailing employees abroad for surgeries that in the U.S. cost tens of thousands of dollars more.

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But there are risks. Patients have little or no legal recourse in medical malpractice cases because of relatively weak patient-protection laws in such countries as India and Thailand, popular surgery destinations among Americans. And U.S. medical organizations and government agencies do not oversee foreign facilities.

"Foremost, surgery is a serious business," Bruce Cunningham, a plastic surgeon from Minneapolis, testified at a recent Senate hearing on medical tourism. "Patients simply cannot make informed decisions about medical care, or establish a proper physician-patient relationship, from travel brochures."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-outsource30jul30,0,2330630.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Coming soon to an employer near you!

[last1standing]

1. So now even our Medical Industry is getting outsourced.

These filthy greedmongers won't be satisfied until they've completely decimated this country. They will literally not stop until the average worker in the US is making starvation wages. Then they'll get the child labor laws rescinded to help the amurkan family to collect more income.

Welcome to the 19th century folks.

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. 19th century? More like 12th

Welcome to the new Dark Ages of Neo Feudalism.

[flamingyouth]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2422621