Indian Healthcare , a joke?

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, and the Indian Medical association have taken umbrage at President Obama's comment that he would like Americans not to travel to contries like India or Mexico in search of medical treatment.

No doubt, it is undrestandable that the private hospital owners and members of the medical community who are reaping huge benefits from surging 'medical tourism' in India are piqued, but it's shocking to hear the Union Health minister describing Obama's comment as 'unnaceptable'. Azad's statement that the world appreciates the quality of Indian healthcare makes me cringe. Is the man serious? Does he really believe that the quality of healthcare in India is comparable to that of developed countries like the US, Australia, or the UK?

It's not patients from developed countries who are flocking to India for medical treatment. the Medical tourism boom is due to patients coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and African nations, eastern Europe, with inferior health-care facilities.
Those patients from developed countries who have no health insurance, and therefore unable to bear the high cost of treatment in their countries, are the ones that travel to India for treatment. Now id Obama wants to extend the benefit of American healthcare to these poor American citizens, so that they will not have to travel out of their country, why is Ghulam Nabi Azad's shorts in a knot?

Actually, all the rich chaps and politicians who need healthcare head out of India to the developed countries when they are seriousy ill, if our healthcare was so excellent, then why do the rich head out of the country for treatment?

India resides in its villages, and most of them are  bereft of  quality healthcare.