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The answer to the problem of the healthcare mess in the US is low prices, and low prices for healthcare already exist:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
This model is the exact opposite of US ass-raping hospitals.
As for quality:
He has big dreams:
And it will happen because of capitalism, not socialism.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
The World's Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000.
A pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, the surgery Shetty performed, can tie up an operating room for most of a day. In the U.S., the procedure can cost more than $200,000. Shetty did it for about $10,000 and turned a profit. A cardiac surgeon by training, Shetty is the founder and chairman of Narayana Health, a chain of 23 hospitals across India that may be the cheapest full-service health-care provider in the world. To American eyes, Narayana's prices look as if they must be missing at least one zero, even as outcomes for patients meet or exceed international benchmarks. Surgery for head and neck cancers starts at $700. Endoscopy is $14; a lung transplant, $7,000. Even a heart transplant will set a patient back only about $11,000. Narayana is dirt cheap even by Indian standards, with the investment bank Jefferies estimating that it can profitably offer some major surgeries for as little as half what domestic rivals charge.
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Within a decade the company had a national network and, in 2014, even opened in the Cayman Islands, in part to attract medical tourists from the U.S. Two years later, Narayana Health went public in Mumbai; it's been continuously profitable since.
"Everyone does as much as they can," Ashwinikumar Kudari, a senior gastrointestinal surgeon, says toward the end of a busy day at the Bangalore hospital. He's just removed two malignant tumors the size of golf balls from a middle-aged woman'sintestines" the seventh surgery he's performed or supervised since morning. A compact man with a trim mustache and a wry smile, Kudari is soon on the move again, checking in briefly on a gallstone removal next door before dashing up a spiral staircase to another operating theater. There, he takes over from a colleague who's struggling to locate a particularly tricky fistula. "Our margins are low on one surgery, but because we do so many in a day, we can make enough," he remarks after the elusive fistula the longest he's ever seen is found, running from the man's anus to above his groin. By working at this pace, the average Narayana surgeon performs as many as six times more procedures annually than an American counterpart.
This model is the exact opposite of US ass-raping hospitals.
As for quality:
The data appear to back Shetty up. In part because its huge volumes help surgeons quickly develop proficiency, the chain's mortality rates are comparable to or lower than those in the developed world, at least for some procedures. About 1.4 percent of Narayana patients die within 30 days following a heart bypass, according to the Commonwealth Fund, which studies public health, compared with 1.9 percent in the U.S. Narayana also outperforms Western systems in results for valve replacements and heart-attack treatment, the group found.
He has big dreams:
"I would like in my lifetime for every citizen of this planet to get health care at a price they can afford to pay without having to beg or sell something"
And it will happen because of capitalism, not socialism.