"I'm sure, no offense to India, I'm sure it's beautiful and everything. I've heard especially this time of year, especially by the - you know that one big river they have there that sounds like a disease?"
The nutty right wing Fox host Glen Beck is taking heat for a television rant on healthcare ridiculing Indian and mocking the Ganges as a disease.
In a segment on medical tourism, Beck complains: "I don't want a discounted doctor. I don't want discounted wages. I don't want any of this stuff. If I wanted to live in India, I'd live in India. I want not the Indian lifestyle, I want the American lifestyle. I'm sure, no offense to India, I'm sure it's beautiful and everything. I've heard especially this time of year, especially by the - you know that one big river they have there that sounds like a disease? Come on, it does. I mean, if somebody said, 'I'm sorry, you have a really bad case of Ganges,' you'd want Cipro."
He ridicules low cost healthcare in India, noting "The best I can figure is all that money goes to high-tech hospitals and doctors who studied at Harvard rather than Gajra Raja medical school. Oh sure, yeah, you know, it's weird. You can buy a Gucci bag on any New York street corner for like four bucks. No different than the 3,000 dollar real thing. They're identical!
He mocks "workers in the healthcare industry that make slightly more here than in India. Because, you know, they have an American lifestyle, maybe a couple of cars, great union benefits, and homes with something that we in America like to call flush toilets."
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Frank Griffin
Tue Jan 19, 2010 Beck
LIFS you need to grow a thicker skin. Joking about the name of a river is incredibly small potatoes and is not really worth anyone's time. Personally I do not have a problem with medical tourism. Whoever can provide the best service at the lowest price should get the customer.
I did not see this particular show but he was probably wanting more effective legislation to control health care costs here in America instead of this stupid Obamacare thingy. I think there are probably great doctors in India or people would not be going there.
