Now Americans are moving to India to have poorly paid Indians care for their aging parents. Will the baby boomers who were so enamored with India in the 60s now move there to take care of their parents and themselves? I don't see this as an option for working class people, because how could we get away from our jobs long enough?
I recall hearing of an employer or an insurance company that wanted to have a patient sent to India for open heart surgery because it was cheaper. The employee in question, if I am remembering this correctly, was in a union and the union pitched a fit about sending him overseas.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/newswatch/story/60CBF662E0A69D7E8625732D001AF132?OpenDocumentMan turns to India for cheap care for parents
By Laurie Goering
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
08/05/2007
PONDICHERRY, INDIA — After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother and father in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the couple in a cheap nursing home.
So he made what he saw as the only sensible decision: He outsourced his parents to India.
Today his mother, Frances, 89, who suffers from advanced Parkinson's disease, gets daily massages, physical therapy and 24-hour help getting to the bathroom, all for about $15 a day. His father, Ernest, 93, an Alzheimer's patient, has a full-time personal assistant, and a cook who has won him over to a vegetarian diet healthy enough that he no longer needs his cholesterol medication.
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