“No local doctor wants to deal with the headache.”
Nice. You should be asking “why are people going to India when they can get the care they need right here?”
Then you should go to your collections department and look at the trends there. Then you should look at the difference in rates you charge customers with insurance, and those without.
You should do this BEFORE everyone but illegal immigrants and medicaid patients stop coming to your ER.
Why go abroad? State of the art hosptials, U.S.-trained physicians, and pennies on the dollar costs by comparison to U.S. prices.
Please. We don’t get a penny from over 30% of the people we see thanks to EMTALA. Another 50% are people on Medicaid we get 20 cents on the dollar from them. I make the same hourly rate I made in 1990 when I left the military. Save your lecture.
Doctors/hospitals charge more of non-medicare patients because they routinely LOSE money treating the government backed people. Just ask a pharmacist who is forced to sell a drug at a loss, thanks to the prescription plan created by REPUBLICANS hoping to buy votes like democrats. The cost of medical care is outrageous thanks to the federal government.