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The Future of U.S. Healthcare...in India?

November 25, 2009 – Comments (0)

Great article earlier this week in the WSJ.

It profiles a heart surgeon, Dr. Devi Shetty, who is taking the principles of Henry Ford and Sam Walton and putting them to work in surgery in India.

We're talking treating patients like cars on an assembly line, squeezing suppliers, and operating a hospital more than 5 times larger than the average U.S. hospital.

Famous for treating Mother Teresa, he adheres to her words, "Hands that serve are more sacred than lips that pray," by making surgeries available to India's poor.

As we start making increasingly difficult choices about our own healthcare in the U.S., it's these types of innovators who will blaze the trail? Don't think foreign healthcare translates to the U.S.? In 2010, an estimated 6 million Americans are expected to go beyond our borders for medical care...up from just 750,000 in 2007!

-Anand Chokkavelu (TMFBomb), who swears he didn't write this post because the WSJ writer is named Geeta Anand.

P.S. Our Global Gains crew is visiting India to scout for ways to profit from these types of trends. To get their dispatches from the road, click here.