The issue may be politically and emotionally charged, but the growing trend of sending U.S. jobs to countries like India isn’t going to stop, several Triangle technology entrepreneurs said last week.

Prejudices have turned offshoring into a moral issue rather than the business decision it actually is, said Michael Eason, vice president of development for Raleigh-based Peopleclick.

Indian firms will perform 15 percent of information technology jobs required by American companies by 2010 and save them $ 30 billion annually to be invested domestically in the US, a new study on the hot-button issue of outsourcing has forecast.

In its annual roundup of predictions for the coming year, neoIT sees increasing acceptance for offshoring as a foregone conclusion for multinational corporations that must keep pace with global competition, global supply and global delivery models.

Spurred by a shortage of U.S. radiologists and an exploding demand for more sophisticated scans to diagnose scores of ailments, doctors at Altoona Hospital and dozens of other American hospitals are finding that offshore outsourcing works even in medicine.

Each dollar that a US company spends on outsourcing a service job to India generates an estimated 1.13 USD in net value for the US, according to a recent study in the current edition of the Milken Institute Review.