Amen to that. I even wondered if that $175,000 quoted price was a typo. But in the video they repeatedly mention $175,000 as having been quoted in the U.S.:SleepyBobR wrote:The usual surgical procedure to correct A-fib is a catheter ablation. I simply cannot imagine how this could cost $175K! Unbelievable. I would expect a bill like that for a heart transplant. Maybe. But not an ablation. At those prices, many more Americans will be traveling to India for health care before long.
Or maybe just to Canada.
Good grief.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/27/in ... nnSTCVideo
We know that here in the good ol' U.S. there are often two quoted price structures: 1) the insurance-negotiated price, and 2) much higher prices quoted for the uninsured. I have no doubt that Sandra Giustina might have shopped around in the U.S. for a much better price than $175,000. But I doubt she could have found the surgery for under $10,000.
Rooster, as it turns out Dasani bottles water in India. But they have also taken criticism for having depleted too much ground water in India in the manufacturing process.roster wrote:Fishy, yes. Does anyone else think the Taj in the background of the photo looks like a mural? Is that a bottle of Dasani water in the lady's hand? India does not allow imports of bottled water.
Notice around two minutes into the above video, we can see Sandra Giustina in her hospital room---with not one but two plastic bottles of water... I kinda suspect Trevor Butterworth would be proud of what's sitting on her nightstand.
