>It will truly be interesting when Americans and Canadians start traveling to India for medical care...

I'm not sure anyone will (except for the same reasons they do now, which mainly is to buy kidneys and have them transplanted (doctors are hpoing to grow the business by getting into corneas, lungs (donord have 2 and need only one) and parts of livers (they grow back)), but here's a more like;ly scenario... diagnosis and even operations will be done over long distances by machinery with the patient (at some hook-up site) to a doctor in India or Russia or wherever. I've read seemingly joking, but who can tell, suggestions that even rich North American doctors love this idea for themselves so that they can live in tax-free luxury on some Carribean island yet stil make handsome fees for the surgeries and such they would 'do'.

The idea that a rising tide lifts all boats has been disproven as far as 'globalization' is concerned. Someone, somewhere, has to suffer and it's turning out that all actually suffer.

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>I've heard some espouse a NAFTA agreement that would require a world-wide minimum wage (it would supposedly be set by cost-of-living per country so the amount would be different in every country) signed by all NAFTA participants. Interesting what the effect of that would be! Many corporations shifted overseas to other countries also simply because those countries have national healthcare so the corporation doesn't have to bear the cost as they do here. Not to mention the lack of healthy work environment regulations in all countries. There are many reasons for the shift but the effect is clear regardless.
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>>This article appears in "Business Week online" (apparently) and is troubling to me in the extreme!
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>>It's not the "facts" that are troubling because they are what they are and I can do little about them.
>>But the attitude of the writer sure does grate!
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>>The author has only profit in his sights - to hell with anything else that might be implicated in his actions!
>>My favourite statement is "Six months ago, I could find high-level programmers in India willing work for $15 an hour, vs. the $100-plus an hour I was paying Americans for the same work. In only six months, that rate has climbed to $25 an hour in India, while my domestic rates have dropped to around $35-$50." (bolding is mine). Thank you very much, Dickhead! Indian programmers have had rate increases while domestic programmers have had their wages cut by half and you think this is good?????
>>That's the kind of "competition" that serves no one except business owners exploiting cheap labour and BIG corporate shareholders urging the same.
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>>I suspect that the author, now gloating as his source of wealth is gleefully described, is unaware that HIS WORK IS NEXT to go to India. It will be real nice to see an article describing how he finds living at 20% of his former income to be so pride-generating!
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>>cheers