Comments on: Healthcare – Next Industry to be OUTSOURCED?

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By: Angelar

Angelar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:25:17 +0000

"the concierge treatment" will last only until their numbers are at the point when they don't need to incentivize. For anyone who thinks this is pie in the sky stuff at least check out the first link to the medical tourism association and look at the long list of companies attending medical tourism conferences and the business is growing by the year. It is no mystery why the private insurers are hiring hundreds of lobbyists to fight reforming health care in America. They are doing their best to scare the taxpayers and it looks like they will succeed. It is sad.

http://www.medicaltourismassociation.com/confer...

http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/dual-per...

"Some big American health insurers are starting to build what they're calling a "globalized health-care services system" for those under their care. In other words, they're looking at outsourcing the ill.

UnitedHealth, which has over 70 million Americans under its care, has already moved to make Bumrungrad International hospital in Bangkok "in network." When Aetna, with 37 million members, bought the overseas insurer Goodhealth Worldwide last year, Aetna's CEO explained the move by saying that globalized surgery is "an important emerging trend." The company has already started a pilot program to send patients abroad for hip and knee replacements."

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:29:31 +0000

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!!

By: Lisa_J

Lisa_J — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:56:35 +0000

This is wrong on so many levels. I had heard about a few people with money going there for certain elective procedures but being forced to go, is a whole other story. I don't think Americans will stand for this, I mean having to go half way around the world for surgery b/c your health insurance company is too cheap to pay for it here? INSANITY!!

By: Angelar

Angelar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:25:17 +0000

"the concierge treatment" will last only until their numbers are at the point when they don't need to incentivize. For anyone who thinks this is pie in the sky stuff at least check out the first link to the medical tourism association and look the long list of companies attending medical tourism conferences and the business is growing by the year. It is no mystery why the private insurers are hiring hundreds of lobbyists to fight reforming health care in America. They are doing their best to scare the taxpayers and it looks like they will succeed. It is sad.

http://www.medicaltourismassociation.com/confer...

http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/dual-per...

"Some big American health insurers are starting to build what they're calling a "globalized health-care services system" for those under their care. In other words, they're looking at outsourcing the ill.

UnitedHealth, which has over 70 million Americans under its care, has already moved to make Bumrungrad International hospital in Bangkok "in network." When Aetna, with 37 million members, bought the overseas insurer Goodhealth Worldwide last year, Aetna's CEO explained the move by saying that globalized surgery is "an important emerging trend." The company has already started a pilot program to send patients abroad for hip and knee replacements."

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:29:31 +0000

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!!

By: Lisa_J

Lisa_J — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:56:35 +0000

By: RobM

RobM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:10:22 +0000

Having been sick overseas it wasn't even considered for me for me to be sent to a hospital in India. Given my experence w/ the Hindu religion the doctors and nurses are not culturally in the same place most Americans are in regard to care. It occurred w/ the birth of my child and the care given my wife my the on call OBGYN on duty till my wife's OBGYN arrived and my experiences w/ techs in my physicals here in the states. These experiences leave me w/ no choice but to say no to the idea of India for medical care.
As to outsourcing overseas it is ridiculous not because you can't receive good care but the practicality of it will shortly disappear w/ the cost of fuel, the issues of responsiblty for errors and sanitation.
The real problem is that the courage to admit that we need a national system for healthcare is not forthcoming despite the Americans public acknowledging they are willing to take the chance. It's doctors, nurses, adminstrative staff, marketing(we need one more heart surgery center in Philly like we need another Vince Fumo), medical related public companies(hospital firms, pharmauetical firms, equipment firms, et al) and lastly health insurance companies that are unwilling to see change in their business models. Yes all of us are relucant to change but this is one of those for the greater good. It won't be planned out or be as smooth but for those of us shut out it will be a good thing to have access.

By: Monie

Monie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:55:08 +0000

And here is something else to add to this

From the Wall Street Journal:

Drug Firms See Poorer Nations as Sales Cure

PETARE, Venezuela -- Julio Rodriguez was on a sales call at a clinic in this slum overlooking Caracas recently when he heard four gunshots go off nearby.

It was business as usual for Mr. Rodriguez. As a representative in Venezuela for U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., his sales route takes him through one of Latin America's most dangerous neighborhoods. To avoid attracting attention, he wears a polo shirt with a red logo, the color worn by supporters of President Hugo Chávez.

Mr. Rodriguez is part of a strategic shift in the $770 billion pharmaceutical industry to target the working poor in the developing world.

For the first time in a half-century, sales of prescription drugs are forecast to decline this year in the U.S., historically the industry's biggest and most profitable market. The Obama administration and Congress's attempt to pass legislation overhauling the health-care system, including provisions that could lower the cost of medicine, could put drug makers' U.S. businesses under further pressure.....

With a handful of other drug makers, including the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Switzerland's Novartis AG and France's Sanofi-Aventis SA, Pfizer is making a big push into the developing world. In addition to Venezuela, the company is expanding in China, India, Brazil, Russia and Turkey. Pfizer brought in $1.4 billion in sales from emerging markets in the first quarter of this year. That's a fraction of its $10.8 billion in overall sales in the same quarter, but a slice Pfizer says it's determined to expand.

Until recently, drug companies doing business in emerging economies have catered mostly to the wealthy and middle class. Now, Pfizer is turning to what it calls, in internal marketing discussions, the "bottom of the pyramid." Its program in Venezuela is an exercise in how to reduce prices enough to attract poorer customers while still turning a profit.

for more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124691259063602...