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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by jjoonathan on Monday July 29, 2013 @10:42AM (#6121359)
Either it's illegal (the government's fault) or hospitals deal with insurers on a bundle basis and they aren't willing to cut out their most profitable procedures (the market's fault). Depends on who you ask, I'm sure :)

Liability might be a problem, but it only accounts for 2% of medical expenditures in the US, so I wouldn't expect it to be insurmountably difficult to insure the procedures to "US standards."

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