[GOP_Party_Animal]

So if you got your heart fixed in India, odds are they did a Shetty job.

[griffin]

Oh dear...this won’t go over well with the environazi’s and their lapdog Marxists in the US House and Senate.

This will interfere with their plans to kill off more people, faster and at maximum cost to the tax payer. Saving more human lives by creating efficient and reasonable healthcare in places the US Federal government can’t control will kill poor Mother Earth!

Oh! The Huge Manatee!

[DallasDeb]

“Heart Hospitals” are cropping up all over the Dallas area. Each one has full capabilities to do every type of heart surgery possible. Each has expensive equipment to perform cardiac caths and other invasive/non-invasive procedures. These are in addition to the major and community hospitals that can do the same things. Maybe this is a starting place for reform, especially in the area of cutting costs.

[Steelfish]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391273/posts

[noah]

Maybe this HEALTH CARE PLAN of the Democrats JUST WON’T MATTER. It’s ONLY important IF THERE IS NO PLACE ELSE TO GO.
Dr Shetty is providing an alternative within relatively EASY REACH.

[Paleo Conservative]

Narayana surgeon Colin John, for example, has performed nearly 4,000 complex pediatric procedures known as Tetralogy of Fallot in his 30-year career. The procedure repairs four different heart abnormalities at once. Many surgeons in other countries would never reach that number of any type of cardiac surgery in their lifetimes.

There are surgcial practices in the US that have economies of scale. In 2001 I had a laminectomy and microdiscectomy by a neurosurgeon in Houston who had performed over 9,000 spine surgeries. That number is just the spine surgeries; it doesn't include brain surgeries, cancer surgeries, or carpal tunnel surgeries. I was the third of four patients he operated on that morning.