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Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented by nradov on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:38PM (#35201807)
It doesn't have to be that expensive. Hospitals in India manage to do coronary bypass surgery for only $4,300 with good outcomes. I understand that costs and salaries are higher in the US, but still there is a huge amount of waste, fraud, and abuse that could be cut out.

https://www.annfammed.org/content/12/5/470

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Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented by riahi on Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:53PM (#35212500)
What is the purchasing power parity of $4300 in India vs the US?

https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...

This has India at 23:1 for USA.

An extremely simplistic analysis would say assuming that conversion factor holds true for all costs, you are “spending” $100,000 dollars of US value when you spend $4300 USD in India.

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