Ultimate Outsourcing

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  • Posted By: donj @ 11/19/2008 10:47:58 PM

    Anyone ready to open a world class hospital in Managua Nicaragua, just three hours from Houston, needs to contact me. The hospital is ready. This is the smartest thing we could do to control high end costs.

  • Posted By: arebrown @ 11/19/2008 10:35:06 PM

    devlin : Do you know if these mexicans hospitals ASK US for a green card ? finally when we go down here we are in their country

  • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 11/19/2008 3:18:54 PM

    I can see it now.

    Need a vacation and surgery? Come on down to sunny Mexico and get the best of both Worlds. For a price less than 50% of what you pay in the USA.

    Why not position hospital cruise ships just outside the US waters and have people ferried out for their procedure. The possibilities are boundless. We train plenty of people in our medical Universities in the States who come from all over the World. There are many fine medical institutions outside of the USA. Why not take advantage of that in a lower cost environment? That way, once we no longer build cars or houses or deliver healthcare, we can all work at Wal Mart for $20,000 a year and live like our Chinese overlords!

    • Posted By: Jumpingnots @ 11/19/2008 8:50:55 PM

      Yes and that's no joke, but that are just about all the jobs we will have left in this country like Wall-Mart or any other service job for $20.000 a year, American dreams anybody ??????

      • Posted By: leecee @ 11/19/2008 10:24:13 PM

        At 7.25 an hour, working full time that only amounts to $15,000/yr. Wal-mart in my town doesn't even pay $7.25 an hour. And many of Wal-Mart employees don't work 40 hours a week.

  • Posted By: devlin00691959 @ 11/19/2008 10:20:44 PM

    how about our ailing healthcare because of illegal immigrants.

  • Posted By: Fl-Mom @ 11/19/2008 10:01:26 PM

    Yes well the hospitals on the other side of the border don't have to carry malpractice insurance on their Dr.s. You can bet that they also don't pay benefits and wages to staff like they do here in the states. Once they cross the border, their operating costs go way down. What this article fails to note is that most Mexicans themselves can't afford these hospitals. They simply don't get the pay and benefits most Americans demand. So really, they are being built to service Americans who don't care whether the locals are getting health care, as long as they can get it themselves for cheaper than in the states.

  • Posted By: Brammy @ 11/19/2008 9:28:26 PM

    Jumping Walmart? Paying 20K... must be on the OTHER side of the border!!!

  • Posted By: Brammy @ 11/19/2008 9:27:21 PM

    Amazing how American Hosopital Groups can move across the border and offer the same health care a 1/3 of the price.

  • Posted By: EuroTrash @ 11/19/2008 9:02:57 PM

    USA, home of the best medical care in the world*

    *but only if you can afford it, otherwise you need to just hurry up and die.

  • Posted By: J12120 @ 11/19/2008 6:09:15 PM

    Outsourcing at its finest. First the cost of health care drives the patients out of the country, and now the hospitals are following the patients over the border. Last person leaving America, please turn off the lights.

  • Posted By: 4carol @ 11/19/2008 4:33:02 PM

    Summer:
    I totally agree. They say that the obesity causes too many other illnesses which is why many insurances will pay for it. Then why won't they pay a measly $400 for shots to help smokers quit?? Smoking also has caused many other illnesses; or is it just that the tobacco companies lobby too much!! I know two people who had bypass with insurance and both of them less than two years later are as heavy or heavier than they were previously. It's disgusting!!!

  • Posted By: Kingcroat @ 11/19/2008 3:35:17 PM

    There is no question that American has fallen.

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