Comments on: Propping Up A Sick Economy

By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:15:02 +0000

My mother is a nurse. She doesn’t have insurance. She is paid enough to live on, barely.

And they are bringing in Filapina nurses that will work for $7/hour instead of paying the American ones $10.

There is less outsourcing, because most of the work is hands-on and on-site. But, like trucking jobs going to Mexican drivers, and schools being turned into distance learning academies, there is some that happens in medicines as well.

By: Joshua Holland

Joshua Holland — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:05:38 +0000

You’re right: there certainly is a lot of outsourcing in healthcare.

I may have been unclear, but what I was trying to say is that there is somewhat less outsourcing — and significantly less potential for offshoring — in healthcare than there is in most of the other sectors of the economy. In other words, it was a relative rather than an absolute statement.

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:29:43 +0000

That was a great article but I would dispute to a point that there isn’t much outsourcing in industry. It is growing fast with all kind of tests from MRI’s to echo cardiograms being read by a Doctor in India.

Also the hospital company I use to work for was outsourcing a lot of the refund and dispute resolution out to India.

I say use to work for since my job in Philadelphia in the billing office was sent to Florida for cheaper labor. That was 125 or so jobs just lost and I’m sure they didn’t add that many people to the office in Florida. So that growth may be true but it’s not evenly spread over the country.