Replies to post #328476 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[nwsun]

ive heard that the trucking industry is also targeted for outsourcing to mexico.. this way the larger (long haul) american trucking companies can be based in mexico as well as the drivers where wages are cheaper. that is how the higher fuel prices will be offset, by paying cheaper wages to the drivers and office staff's in mexico.... it coincides with that test program to allow mexican truck drivers to go over 100 miles into the continental united states..before, mexican based semi-truck drivers could not drive much beyond the borders..

[ieddyi]

It's already happened

Some insurance companies are paying for their patients to have high cost procedures in Thailand and other places

All things considered, they end up saving big time

The hospitals are of the highest standard

Not a bad idea

[janice shell]

It hasn't happened yet, but with outsourcing to lower wage countries, it really could happen in healthcare.

It's happened. It's also called "medical tourism".

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1196429-2,00.html