Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by enraged_camel on Monday July 29, 2013 @11:57AM (#6121878)

>>When it is YOUR life on the line, you may very well be willing to pay significantly more for those diminishing returns; they may be diminishing, but they are in fact greater returns.

There is no evidence that this is the case. Note that the vast majority of the cost is due to the massive complexity of the system: every party involved - and there are many - wants their cut, and they don't necessarily contribute to the well-being of the patient or the efficiency of the process.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by cgore on Monday July 29, 2013 @03:05PM (#6123151)

You don't get payed for how smart you are or how hard you worked. You get paid for how big of a problem you fixed for somebody, and how much they are capable of paying you. That's why good doctors and lawyers get paid so well. Dying or going to jail are big problems, and people will spend a lot of their money to avoid them.

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