If Nurses and Doctors are HERE, why not bring the patients too?

[Hoss]

US Medicare is funding low cost health care for US patients in Mexico, and now India is setting up a very smart program to retain Nurses and Doctors by "Outsourcing" health care to entice patients to go to India!

With the richest talent in healthcare in the world, why can't the Philippine Govt. set up a program to utilize their finest resource...the Filipino Health Care Professionals? This would raise the wages for Doctors and Nurses, add tourism income to the hospitality sector, and KEEP THE GOOD CAREGIVERS IN THE PHILIPPINES. Here is the article:

THE SEATTLE TIMES

Outsourcing the elderly: Low-cost care, made in India

By Laurie Goering

Chicago Tribune

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Ernest Herzfeld, 93, who has Alzheimer's, gets a hand from one of his six-person care staff at his home in Pondicherry, India, earlier this year. Ernest's son Steve Herzfeld pays around $2,000 a month for food, rent, utilities, medications, phones and 24-hour care for his elderly parents.

PONDICHERRY, India-After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother and father in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the couple in an affordable nursing home.

So he made what he saw as the only sensible decision: He "outsourced" his parents to India.

His 89-year-old mother, Frances, who suffers from advanced Parkinson's disease, now receives daily massages, physical therapy and 24-hour help getting to the bathroom, all for about $15 a day. His father, Ernest, 93, an Alzheimer's patient, has a full-time personal assistant and a cook who has won him over to a vegetarian diet healthful enough that he no longer needs cholesterol medication.

Best of all, the plentiful drugs the couple require cost less than 20 percent of what they do at

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003819509_indiahomes03.html home, and salaries for.............

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yes, that's a good one. gives income to the health professionals here. and stops the drain too.

and IT WILL BE A SLAP TO THE FACE FOR MANY FILIPINOS WHO DOESN'T HAVE A PART OF THE LAND THEY CALL HOME.

look:

projects like that requires land and infrastructure. after the facility is built, it has to be supplied with food and other basic utilities.

all the while "squatters" are displaced and hard-pressed to earn their living. before their problems have been food, now shelter has been added to the list as well.

this country is the place they call home, and it can't provide for them, but will provide for foreigners?!:angryfire

you can consider me biased; i have a friend in college who had her house demolished, "salvaged" is the term here.

[suzanne4, RN]

The foreigners pay cash up front for many of these procedures that they have done in other countries. And it is done in many other countries as well. Look at Thailand, much money is brought in that way.

And there are still many Filipinos that go back to PI to have surgical procedures done, in fact, it is very common.

But your country has to have in place facilities that can handle the foreigner that will come there. And with treatment better than what we are seeing there. Good ratios with patients to nurse for one thing.