Financial Times: "Western healthcare can learn from advances in poorer nations"

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Financial Times, June 4

Western healthcare can learn from advances in poorer nations

"... In my experience, the poor are happy to pay affordable prices. They like
being customers, able to demand high-quality services and dignified
treatment rather than beggars who must accept whatever is on offer ..."

The article is free-to-view if you search for it in Google News, or if you register. Great article!

[Victor]

I live in Dominican Republic. You should see the lines outside specialist doctors who people identify as good doctors, either for their customer service, prices, word of mouth success stories or just likeability.

These doctors chare above what the insurance will cover and people still go.

There’s all kinds of schemes down here: government run hellish hospitals, mixed health care providers (that’s the majority), almost entirely free-market clinics (whose main income comes from medical tourism,but they’re available to the wealthy, and you get high-end service there for an internationally competitive price). Here's an example: http://www.homshospital.com/ (this one is actually located 5 minutes from an international airport).

I actually get health services for my family from a clinic in another city because I like their quality standards and services, and in fact costs me less than here in the capital. Here's a link to their website: http://clinicaunionmedica.com/