Despicable greed by mercenary doctors, crooked hospitals, callous insurance firms and gluttonous pharmaceutical companies is playing havoc with the lives of Americans. Scary Survey Earlier today, Consumer Reports (a highly-respected non-partisan organization) put out the results of a survey. Folks, the results are very depressing and downright scary. According to the survey, 28% of Americans […]
Un ‘f*&#*ng’ believable. Insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in tax-payer funded bailout, is paying out over $700 hundred million in bonus and retention payments to its employees, according to the Washington Post. The feeble excuse – AIG is contractually obligated to pay the money. But U.S. courts have routinely thrown out contracts […]
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the high child malnutrition rates in India. Here’s an excerpt from the NYT story: [E]ven after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy. China, […]
Lo, here comes the 15th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Beggar Capital of the World – India’s capital New Delhi has 58,000 beggars, most of them children, according to the Voice of America. * Laddu Explodes in Cow’s Mouth: No kidding, folks. Read this story in Times of India. * SSC […]
A lot of Government doctors in India are corrupt and often even fail to report for duty. In remote Indian villages, we’ve seen Indian doctors extorting bribes from very poor villagers. Pigs. But bribery in the healthcare delivery system is not restricted to India. We just read a heartrending story of corruption in the Romanian healthcare […]
Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]