I love that that's not even half of India.
India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care
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#112We got free healthcare in europe that i pay for with atrociously high taxes. Yet whenever i actually need to visit a doctor i always go to a private one.
I live an europe, and having recently gotten very ill, I go to nationalized doctors a lot. It's not free, but very close to free, and I would be bankrupt in the US by now. For instance, I did an MRI for less than 50 EUR. How much do you think it costs in the US? I would guess at least an order of magnitude more, likely more. I went to a just a few private doctors too to get a second opinion, and because they had a re…
The average cost of an MRI in the US is ~$2,600.
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#113I just hope it works very well because it seems every year there is one new populist measure. There is already: a. Food Security which provides food to nearly 2/3rd of the population or 820 million people. b. Minimum Support prices for grains which was hiked in this budget. Farmers also get loan waivers. c. National Rural Employment Guarantee which provides employment to over 100 million people
It's not a populist mesaure. You need this while you find a way to modernize agriculture practices so that the 60% who depend on farming won't have tough times. Also, there's enough money for all these schemes while still maintaining a decent fiscal deficit. What has to be worked on is the delivery of these. For better or worse linking Aadhar to bank accounts and delivering the benefits directly into the bank account…
If agriculture is modernized, it will need less men and will lead to more rural unemployment and hardships, no? Need to take measures so that 60% population should not depend on agriculture
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current state government is pro business and don’t have any money to implement or continue any past programs. Whatever money they have is spent on pet projects and making themselves rich. The previous government even though was corrupt at least did something for the poor. I personally witnessed AROGYASHRI being used by the poor and the amount of stability it bought to their daily lives. I also agree that there wa…
> If the choice is between saving the lives of the poor with corruption vs letting them die without I would choose the former any day This is very important. We need to finally realize that corruption is endemic to the system, and when corruption is raised as an issue it is generally to disadvantage the poor (last time I looked Wall Street is still doing fine even under the highest levels of corruption one can imagin…
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#115This is a sham. There is no specific allocation for the same in the budget. State Governments have been instituting insurance cover for population for ages and it is available around the same quantum. Generally insurance in India like any other country has the effect of artificially inflating healthcare cost. India would do well to spend money on improving public health infrastructure instead.
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#116India has 1,320m people. This headline is slightly concerning, given the caste system in place that engineers poverty. Who is paying for it and who is getting the benefit?
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#117One of my uncles got paralyzed on his whole left side of body because of carelessness of govt hospital, lack of sanitation, corruption, and the general don't give a fuck attitude of the employees( if they cared to show up to work in the first place). There is a running joke in India that "You can only go to a govt hospital" implication being that you'd not return alive. I suspect this is another scheme concocted to g…
> There is a running joke in India that "You can only go to a govt hospital" implication being that you'd not return alive.
I have never heard this joke atleast in Mumbai or Pune.
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#118For a population of 1.3 Billion this is less than half the population. Other countries cover 100% population with such schemes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_in...
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Restrictions aren't just on users, but on providers as well. If you don't see restrictions as an user, it's because most of the restrictions are on the providers. And nothing wrong with that, I actually support that model, just like in Switzerland, where healthcare is private, but mandated by the government and heavily regulated (with less-regulated private complimentary insurance options). It allows for innovation a…
Yeah, the the post I replied to claimed there were restrictions on private clinics specifically, but the public clinics/hospitals have to follow the same rules. Also: are there any places that charge for births???? That sounds ridiculous and insane to me.
are there any places that charge for births???? That sounds ridiculous and insane to me.
In the U.S., if you have decent insurance, you'll still end up paying a couple thousand or more after insurance payouts. And that's just for the birth and short (1-2 days) hospital stay. Any complications and you're potentially paying much, much more. Especially NICU, it's not unusual to pay hundreds of dollars per day of NICU care after insurance, and non-insured costs can easily end up in the tens or hundreds of thousands, and in rare situations in the millions.
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#120The article reads as if this is health insurance, however it uses both terms health care and health insurance. Those are entirely different from each other.
One believes that preventative care will increase health, limiting the need for procedures and pills. The other believes that one can pay a lower premium (possibly through the state), betting on getting sick. These are opposite of each other.
I'm not saying this is bad - just that people have to know what is being discussed, or inevitably people will be disappointed.