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To: 16yearcycle who wrote (26902)	1/14/2006 11:59:02 PM
From: bob zagorin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

i agree that the u.s health care system has some serious problems, mostly related to the high expense and poor coverage that is either going to leave most americans without adequate care because they can't afford it or their employers can't afford to cover them. but on the other hand, our biotech research companies still lead the world and, imho, they are one of the leading edges of our new economy....

To: 16yearcycle who wrote (26902)	1/15/2006 12:07:50 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57684

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. broward.com