{"id":576,"date":"2004-10-21T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=576"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"medical_tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/medical_tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick MSNBC article on a topic we&#8217;ve covered before &#8211; <a title=\"MSNBC - India draws 'medical tourists'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6293825\/\">MSNBC &#8211; India draws &#8216;medical tourists&#8217;<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>NEW DELHI &#8211; Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000 &#8212; an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance.\n\nSo he outsourced the job to India.\n\n&#8230;Total bill: about $10,000, including roundtrip airfare and a planned side trip to the Taj Mahal.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick MSNBC article on a topic we&#8217;ve covered before &#8211; MSNBC &#8211; India draws &#8216;medical tourists&#8217; &#8211; NEW DELHI &#8211; Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/medical_tourist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}