once you go over there, and you see their hospitals, the kind of care, the cost, and the fact that the drugs are 100% identical for 1/10 the price, it is quite an eye opener I can assure you. Theres a bunch of articles on it but here is one.
Flying to India for a physical
28-STEP EXAM COSTS $110, INCLUDING MEALS
By Nicole C. Wong
Mercury News
Hemant Buch, founder of the California Cricket Academy, flew to India last month to recruit coaches for the upcoming youth cricket tournament in Cupertino. The healthy 42-year-old also made an appointment for an annual check-up at Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad, a city just north of Mumbai.
The 28-step examination lasted from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., providing the medical team with enough time to assess his health in painstaking detail.
In between the phases of the physical, a friendly staffer served him breakfast, then coffee or tea, lunch, and then more coffee or tea. The bill: about $110.
The Cupertino resident is among the world's 150,000 so-called ``medical tourists'' who mixed business or pleasure with health care when they traveled to India this year.
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