"US Employers Look Offshore for Healthcare," LA Times."

[cyclezealot]

Below is a link to show there is no end to 'offshorinng,' US products and services. Now medical costs are so expensive here, Insurance companies consider sending you overseas for your next coronary bypass.
A paid vacation for you and your significant other. And this will save all money. Would you go overseas for your next rotorcuff surgery?
Might not mind picking and choosing my medical destination. Can I go to the RIverria over India?
I say , the US medical system. Costs of everything is out of control. There is no controlling when every step of medical costs is another interest inflating costs to cover their profit margins.
US healthcare is not always small enterprise. Often , such as nursing homes, medical services are owned by mega companies feeding on a monopolistic cash cow.
The link.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-outsource30jul30,1,736228.story
And first two paragraphs.

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.

[Sherman A1]

1. The best plan would be to send

The CEO's offshore to maybe Gitmo and let them work on their tans.

[Donnachaidh]

2. make the popcorn, I'll bring the beverages

It's going to be FUN watching the AMA crap it's collective britches over this one. All those bright shiny new medical buildings popping up everywhere, and no patients to pay for it...YUM!

[cyclezealot]

3. shows who runs this country.

The AMA and even , the American Manufacturers Assoc. have paid lip service to Universal Coverage. The AMA has even endorsed Single Payer, as I recall. So who has more influence, now.
I say the American pharmaceutcils lobby and insurance companies. They oppose single payer for obvious reasons. They are the biggest cause of the outrageous costs the US consumer has to pay.

[B Calm]

4. Employers gave us group health care to force us to work cheap.

I imagine a country with national health care, where employees have the freedom to quit jobs. When the cheap labor employer screws you on wages, you have the freedom of not having to worry about not having health care and move on to a better job.

[cyclezealot]

5. When traveling in Europe talking to locals.

They just do not understand why one would not necessarily take on a low wage job. But, we explained how lack of health insurance causes that job jeopardize your financial security. (No health insurance can wipe out your assets.)
So my point, if a job has health insurance , you will be more willing to work low wage jobs. And yes, it does cause you to move on since your health insurance remains intact.

[Skidmore]

6. Now doctoring will be outsourced. Wonder if that will make a

difference with all the politicized medical professionals who helped put * in the WH. I worked at a major hospital till spring of this year and during the last election there was a group of doctors who would come in the door every morning loudly extolling *'s fine qualities and how they were sure he was going to win. Sometimes they would talk about political events they were anticipating being involved in. * was going to help the doctors beat up those big bad lawyers over law suits. Doesn't change the fact that there are still lawyers and doctors make medical errors or can be incompetent and refuse to let anyone else police them.

How far up the food chain does free marketeering have to go until someone modifies it or scraps part of it?

[cornermouse]

7. Sure. Why not?

They've already used it to destroy manufacturing.

And I know I certainly won't mind spending my old age in a nursing home in India or China (that's where we'll be going because they're the cheapest) surrounded by people who either don't speak English at all or speak it not very well.