Author Topic: Outsourcing medical care (Read 273 times)

AKcurly · « **on:** October 23, 2004, 01:55:28 AM »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6293825/

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Yeager · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2004, 02:01:28 AM »

the concept of a free global economy has its perks, doesn't it.

If american doctors think they have the market on heart surgery cornered, well....they appear to have another thing coming.

Let free markets dictate on fair terms.

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2004, 02:03:54 AM »

Sure, why not? If the CEO's can piss on the American worker by sending jobs to cheaper labor in other countries, the American people should be able to do the same.

Of course, the Republicans won't like seeing the tables turned on their rich little medical constituents.

john9001 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2004, 11:44:43 AM »

you don't have to leave the country to get a foreign doctor, half the docs in my HMO are named Patel.

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2004, 12:05:30 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
you don't have to leave the country to get a foreign doctor, half the docs in my HMO are named Patel.

...yet, they're charging American high prices.

your statement was just a bit racist.

Tarmac · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2004, 12:11:42 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
you don't have to leave the country to get a foreign doctor, half the docs in my HMO are named Patel.

And I bet a lot of them are American.

Yeager · « **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2004, 12:19:21 PM »

Just remember, you do not have to speak english to be an american.

Furball · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2004, 12:44:59 PM »

do you have to speak american to be english?

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2004, 01:06:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
Just remember, you do not have to speak english to be an american.

however, there OUGHT to be some effort to learn English if you live & work in America.

the same would be true - regarding Spanish - if you moved to Peru, Spain, wherever.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2004, 01:22:32 PM »

linky no worky

Suave · « **Reply #10 on:** October 23, 2004, 03:11:13 PM »

Hospitals are importing a lot of nurses from the filipines and pakistan on work visas because they are able to pay them less than americans.
I don't really have a problem with it, but like a lot of MDs their english is difficult to understand over the telephone.