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Cheap $hot

By LIFS May 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM
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Members of India’s medical community are bristling at what they term as Pres. Barack Obama’s cheap shot at the country’s “cheap” healthcare.

 
Speaking at a community college in Virginia, Obama said: “My preference would be that you don’t have to travel to Mexico or India to get cheap healthcare. I’d like you to be able to get it right here in the United States of America that’s high quality… Before we went on the path of ‘you can go somewhere else to get your healthcare,’ let’s work to see if we can reduce the costs of healthcare here in the United States of America. That’s going to make a big difference.”

Indian health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad countered: “Affordable healthcare does not mean our medicine is inferior to any superpower.”

Dr Vinay Agarwal, president of the Indian Medical Association, said Obama’s quip “only tells that US feels threatened by India as we are competing with them in providing quality healthcare at cheaper cost.”

 

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