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Hey Buddy, Can I Catch A Lift To India For My Health Care?

Last year we visited an Indian hospital that engaged in medical tourism. Fascinating place and visit.

Today’s Wall Street Journal [subscription required] had a great article on this very subject (Paying Workers To Go Abroad For Health Care).

Short summary:

In an effort to control rising costs, a small but growing number of insurers and employers are giving people the option of seeking treatment in countries like India.

I predict said trend will continue and more and more firms will do this.

Check out the article.

Have any of you worked for or do any of you work for firms that have plugged into medical tourism to help cut costs? If so, what has been your experience?

If not, if/when that day comes, won’t this trip help you make a better/more informed decision re: the viability of going this route for you individually and/or for you as a manager of your firm trying to educate your employees on this option?

1 comment September 30th, 2008

Day 15, Delhi-Mumbai (Team 7: Haskell, Dip, Munio, Dundon)

Day 15, one of the longest days of the trip, started off with a great breakfast buffet at the Intercontinental Eros Hotel where we had been staying for the last two nights in Delhi. The Intercontinental was probably the nicest hotel we experienced to this point, the polar opposite of the first hotel at which we stayed outside of Delhi. Following the breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and proceeded to our sole company visit of the day.

For our final visit in the Delhi area, we met with several upper management members of Nokia India. Nokia, as most of us know, is the world’s top cellular phone manufacturer. Though its market penetration seems to have slowed in the States due to the recent introduction of Apple’s iPhone and the popularity of countless other brands including BlackBerry, LG, Sony Ericcson, and Motorolla, Nokia actually sells more phones in India than all of the ot