Improving health care on two different fronts

In newsobserver.com A passage to India for surgery, Rick Martinez reports on a new way for American companies to provide less expensive, but very good, health care for their employees. Visits to the Taj Mahal included upon request. No, really. India is marketing health services to Americans who want to cut costs, and Europeans and Canadians who want access to better care. More power to them, I say.

hat tip: Carolina Journal (via Betsy's Page.)

Meanwhile, in the United States, Jane Erikson of the Arizona Daily Star reports that the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "100,000 Lives Campaign" appears to be reducing hospital errors and preventable deaths.