Are there MDs like Dr.Devi Shetty of India in the PHL?

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I must have made the mistake of teaching only opportunity seeking for   MD in MBA for Health in a leading GSB in Manila.  I should refocus my syllabus on making hospital care as social enterprise instead instead of molding them into the likes of tycoon.  We need to bring down health care cost in the PHL instead of following the opportunistic pricing/opportunity seeking model of business entrepreneurs as in US (as investigated by Steve Brill for Time Magazine)

We should go to the Doctor to the Barrio model (Dr. Flavier) or even hilots or herbolarios, to be strategic doctors, to use the herbs and food in distant barrio to cure the sick and the poor.

Or follow the Indian models:    Dr. V of the Aravind Hospital envisioned the hospital to be the McDonald of Eye Surgery.  They had operated on millions using operations management method.
and Dr Devi Shetty  of the Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH hospital)  He founded this in 2001 because his employer could not understand his vision.  Heart surgery in NH costs only the equivalent of $l,500 vs. $108,000 in US or $25,000 in the Phil. He also founded the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences  (RTIICS

 In Davao PHL, it is only $8,000.00  Dr. Shetty believes that costs can be reduced by as much as 50% in a decade by employing economies of scale Thus the costs in India can still go down to $800.00. That is something!

Can there be a philantropist Dr. like Dr. Shetty (most will think that that model is simply shit)?  Can we make health services:

1.  Be in the mold of social business; (the reverse of profit maximization business)

2.  Be operated in an efficient manner to bring down costs?

3.  Be compassionate.

There is no need to have medical tourism campaign if we give excellent medical care at very low costs.  Patients from Arab countries, US, UK, and South Africa visit NH and get quality care at low cost.

Why is health care cost so high in US, and also acting up in the PHL too?

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Repost from Dr. Mercola archive | August 14, 2013

A heart surgery costs about $1 583 or 95,000 rupees (the Indian currency is on verge of devaluation so it could be even lower) in India and about ten times as much in USA, eg. Cleveland Clinic $106, 385.  Efforts are underway to reduce the price some more in India to about $800 within the decade to make the procedure to most of the Indians who live on less than $2 a day.  (There is the Aravind hospital in India which does a cataract surgery for only $5!!)  Everything could be reduced including supplies and drapes which could be a model for developing countries.

In the US though, every thing is about opportunistic pricing (maximizing because of health care system?) According to Dr. Devi Shetty

This gave rise to medical tourism and prices in other countries, even with the hotel and air travel are much lower than in the US.  Such countries include Thailand, Taiwan and India.  However such travel are risky because of superbugs in such countries, and other risks associated with travel.

Steven Brill of Time Magazine did an investigative piece on US health care cost which are sometimes shocking!  Costs/prices could be staggering. Profit motive, profit maximization.  Health care costs in US total are the health care costs of top ten countries after it;  yet longevity in US is at the tail end.

They also have many unnecessary procedures.

Health care should be more classified as a social business.  And the largest hospitals in the PHL, the big four, Makati Med, TMC, Cardinal, and St. Lukes (two are owned by MVP) are on profit maximization, opportunity pricing trajectory like US (vs the income levels of Filipinos)

If I were given longer life and have more business opportunities, I will have health care facilities patterned after India.

Tour to the tropical/sunshine paradise is cheap cures

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From Dr. Mercola archives | March 14, 2013 

More and more antibiotics resistant soft tissue infection are being discovered and costs a staggering $24 billion and 14 million visits a year. Dr. Mercola recommends:   plenty of exposure to sunlight, plenty of Vitamin D.

Blue light therepy, which has been approved by FDA can be effective vs. pseudomonas infection and MRSA (Methicylin resistant staphylococcus aureus.)

Solar ultraviolet radiation has been shown to be effective against toenail infections, tuberculosis and a host of other diseases like: PTB, relieving MS symptoms, neonatal jaundice, relieving fibromyalagia pain,  protection against melanoma, treatment of skin diseases; enhancement of mood due to increased production of endorphins.

That is why going to Bahamas (and the PHL Boracay, Palawan) is a cure.  More exposure to sunlight is a cure;  a cheap cure.  No wonder, hordes of European and American tourist flock to tropical/sunshine paradise like teh PHL.

That is why they call it medical tourism.  PHL beacons Westerners for sunshine cure