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Re: India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul

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Post by dv_dt » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

petilon wrote: post #25

>> which would offer the poorest half of India health insurance to apply toward private hospitals This is a terrible idea. Did they learn nothing from the failure of Health Care in the United States? When insurance pays for everything patients stop worrying about costs, which in turn causes hospitals and drug companies to raise prices. This is what has caused Health Care to fail from a costs point of view. The soluti…

Most first world nations have government bodies with medical experts setting maximum costs for drugs and procedures. Their costs for healthcare are much lower than the US.

The idea that "The solution is to make the consumer participate in driving costs down." has been demonstrated in none of those nations for healthcare.

As a well-educated white collar worker in a non-medical field, if I broke a bone and a doctor gave me three different options and costs for setting that bone, I would really have no basis for being able to choose the right option for the best long-term cost/quality of health.

This idea is like asking regular computer users to determine what software stack they should buy to use in their cloud computing provider.

Re: India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul

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Post by rohit2412 » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 10:28 PM UTC

pavanred wrote: post #76

rohit2412 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you deliberately change GW to KW? 20 GW in 2018 with process falling 15% year on year can lead to a sudden increase. Let's pass judgement in 2021 when things are clearer.

Edit: ...2GW in 2015 and is about 20GW in 2018... Typo, and HN doesn't allow me to update it now. Anyway, my point was that in the past 4 years we achieved 20GW and we expect to achieve 80GW in the next 4 years.

But it isn't linear. Price is falling exponentially (15% every year). And adoption will be more rapid as solar suddenly becomes economically viable.

For a benchmark, look at China's adoption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China . Not at how many years they too from 20gw to 175 gw, but how much solar became viable for them last year.

Re: India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul

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Post by boruto » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

modi15 wrote: post #56

rahulthewall wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That being said most of India has access to govt. run hospitals which offer near free services. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I would recommend the following study, published in The Lancet >In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of…

I dont really need the study. I stay here and experience this on a daily basis. There is nothing in the study which contradicts what I said. People do visit private hospitals if public hospitals dont meet their needs and such visits can definitely bankrupt people. That doesnt have to mean that the govt. hospitals are doing a bad job or that private hospitals are inaccessible.

People who think Govt hospitals are not doing a bad job should at least visit a Govt hospital once. Govt. hospitals in india are pathetic. I have first hand experience with Government general hospital, Nellore.