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Mississippi is the fattest state for 5th straight year, Colorado still leanest

For 2010 Mississippi has claimed the title of fattest state for the fifth consecutive year, while Colorado continues its streak as the leanest. Maine rose the most places in the rankings over last year, while Oregon dropped the most, according to a new analysis by CalorieLab, Inc.Tennessee jumped from fourth place to tie last year’s second place state Alabama. Nine states have obese populations that exceed 30 percent over a three-year average, and in ten states two-thirds of the citizens were either overweight or obese by CDC standards in 2009.

Also not faring well this year was Maine, which rose six places to be the 29th fattest state, from last year’s 35th placing.Read More about the most Obese States in US

Forty four year old Ms Misty  Eve Vanhaitsma from Michigan  would have preferred to have her spinal disc replacement surgery from the United states if that was possible , that is she she could have done that.

Self employed and not covered by insurance,Misty decided alternately to search across the internet to shop around for some accredited Hospital that offered her an  affordable surgery which  could have given her’ quality medical ” treatement along with savings in terms of ” the treatment cost. Her research threw up opportunities in Spain and India, and Misty is now  recovering now in Fortis Hospitals,Bangalore.

Looking to return home quickly and even looking forward to her “ equestrian” later, Ms Misty is more than happy with her surgery, her choice of hospital and her dream team of medical professionals which treated .In fact she quips, no more than the reliable looks of her doctor ,may have resulted her in choosing  Indian and ” Fortis Hospitals” as  the first place.

Bottomline though her surgery  back inthe USA would have set her down by  $200,000 , was done in $20,000 in india she points out  and there in hangs a mesage for the US, says Indian healthcare representatives , specially so as  Barrack Obama comes home to India, spearheading the Campaign,  to  reform  Healthcare in the United  States, making it affordable and expanding its coverage  to uninsured  Americans.

No Backlash: Healthcare might not be an agenda when president Obama comes calling  to Indian later this week, but the US could do well to pave the way as to recognize India as an affordable destination, for quality medical Treatement,according to Fortis Hospitals CEO, Vishal Bali.

The outsourcing backlash that paves information technology, these days , need not  hold good for healthcare as when it comes sending patients to India,and results in financial savings for the US people,Mr Bali explains. India does have its own internal issues in making ” quality healthcare accessible ” but on a global platform it is still more affordable  than other countries, he says. Illustrating this he says ” Joint Replacement” costs  $11,000 in India , while the same procedure will cost almost $50,000 in the United States.

Similary “ Cardiac Surgery” will cost  about one seventh  of the US cost, between $65,000 to $100,000, he points out.Fortis Hospitals already sees some  20,000 patients every year.