Comments on: Glenn Beck’s diatribe on India http://uberdesi.com/blog/2009/12/09/glenn-becks-diatribe-on-india/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Keeping it real, desi ishtyle Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:20:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Parishkar Sharma http://uberdesi.com/blog/2009/12/09/glenn-becks-diatribe-on-india/comment-page-1/#comment-6258 Parishkar Sharma Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:46:51 +0000 http://uberdesi.com/blog/?p=3512#comment-6258 Make a google news search for "Ronald Lemmer" .<br><br>He is a 65 years old American Patient from Minneapolis who went on for heart transplant surgery in INDIA.<br><br>It's not about money , but for chose to be operated in INDIA for the sake of his life. People from all over the world are coming to India for getting medical treatments. Even parents from Pakistan gets their child treated in INDIA .<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3xfj66p" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/3xfj66p</a> Make a google news search for “Ronald Lemmer” .

He is a 65 years old American Patient from Minneapolis who went on for heart transplant surgery in INDIA.

It's not about money , but for chose to be operated in INDIA for the sake of his life. People from all over the world are coming to India for getting medical treatments. Even parents from Pakistan gets their child treated in INDIA .

http://tinyurl.com/3xfj66p

]]> By: Sidhu http://uberdesi.com/blog/2009/12/09/glenn-becks-diatribe-on-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5702 Sidhu Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:51:14 +0000 http://uberdesi.com/blog/?p=3512#comment-5702 Dolores, I'm assuming the above comment was not rhetorical, I'm not sure if I can understand it completely either. I don't think this post's author mentioned anything about "American salaries as spending money for Americans", you bring a lot of unnecessary points not related to the above discussion and I think your view of a "medical tourist taking advantage of poverty" is erroneous. The medical tourist is taking advantage of extremely cheap medical procedures, and an average Indian not having a pot to piss in is nowhere connected to medical tourism, other than the fact that a huge increase in number of medical tourists would eventually provide the pot you seem to be concerned about. I think you actually sound like Glenn Beck above, who is connecting non-existent dots, he is probably just pissed off that American dollars are going to Indian doctors, and he probably has a right to be pissed off (with or without a pot), but this has nothing to do with patriotism, tomorrow if Mexicans discover a 10$ hip replacement procedure, Americans are going to go there, they don't care about Indian or Mexican poverty. Hope you can see that simple logic. Dolores,

I’m assuming the above comment was not rhetorical, I’m not sure if I can understand it completely either. I don’t think this post’s author mentioned anything about “American salaries as spending money for Americans”, you bring a lot of unnecessary points not related to the above discussion and I think your view of a “medical tourist taking advantage of poverty” is erroneous. The medical tourist is taking advantage of extremely cheap medical procedures, and an average Indian not having a pot to piss in is nowhere connected to medical tourism, other than the fact that a huge increase in number of medical tourists would eventually provide the pot you seem to be concerned about.

I think you actually sound like Glenn Beck above, who is connecting non-existent dots, he is probably just pissed off that American dollars are going to Indian doctors, and he probably has a right to be pissed off (with or without a pot), but this has nothing to do with patriotism, tomorrow if Mexicans discover a 10$ hip replacement procedure, Americans are going to go there, they don’t care about Indian or Mexican poverty. Hope you can see that simple logic.

]]> By: Santosh http://uberdesi.com/blog/2009/12/09/glenn-becks-diatribe-on-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5700 Santosh Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:00:45 +0000 http://uberdesi.com/blog/?p=3512#comment-5700 Dolores, I'm not sure what your point or problem is. Medical tourism happens for some who cannot afford to pay for it here. Medical care and basic sanitation are issues to a large section of Indians, who still live under poverty. I'm not sure which one of these statements you're arguing about. You're talking about "Indians living here" as if they are the ones engaging in medical tourism. A large section of Indian-origin people living in the US pay more taxes, pay for their own healthcare and generate a larger per-capita group of doctors than the average American irrespective of race, age or sex. Check your facts before you bring up piss pots or make fun of Indian sounding names. Dolores,
I’m not sure what your point or problem is. Medical tourism happens for some who cannot afford to pay for it here. Medical care and basic sanitation are issues to a large section of Indians, who still live under poverty. I’m not sure which one of these statements you’re arguing about.
You’re talking about “Indians living here” as if they are the ones engaging in medical tourism. A large section of Indian-origin people living in the US pay more taxes, pay for their own healthcare and generate a larger per-capita group of doctors than the average American irrespective of race, age or sex.
Check your facts before you bring up piss pots or make fun of Indian sounding names.

]]> By: Dolores http://uberdesi.com/blog/2009/12/09/glenn-becks-diatribe-on-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5698 Dolores Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:25:11 +0000 http://uberdesi.com/blog/?p=3512#comment-5698 The public health infrastructure of India vs. the US is not a trivial issue. The vast majority of Indians can't afford that cheap surgery, and rabies is still a significant cause of death - in humans. You are talking about taking advantage of the disparity of economic ecologies between the US and India. Yes, every thing costs more here but we also spend more. Everything the Indians love about living here: the clean pavement, the cops who won't expect a tip, the public libraries, the covered sewage, the plumbing everywhere came with a cost. When it suits Indians, they talk like those big American salaries are merely spending money for Americans, they conveniently forget how our lifestyle is paid for. So, the medical tourist can take advantage of the poverty of India and that the average Indian literally doesn't have a pot to piss in. The public health infrastructure of India vs. the US is not a trivial issue. The vast majority of Indians can’t afford that cheap surgery, and rabies is still a significant cause of death – in humans. You are talking about taking advantage of the disparity of economic ecologies between the US and India. Yes, every thing costs more here but we also spend more. Everything the Indians love about living here: the clean pavement, the cops who won’t expect a tip, the public libraries, the covered sewage, the plumbing everywhere came with a cost. When it suits Indians, they talk like those big American salaries are merely spending money for Americans, they conveniently forget how our lifestyle is paid for. So, the medical tourist can take advantage of the poverty of India and that the average Indian literally doesn’t have a pot to piss in.

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