First of all, it is worth affirming that the Indian region, with a population close to 1.4 billion and about to surpass that of China, has indeed realized free medical care. That is to say, any Indian, whether a billionaire or a beggar, only have Indian nationality, theoretically have the opportunity to enjoy India's free medical care, they are sick, in accordance with national regulations, can go to public hospitals to enjoy free diagnosis and treatment, free surgery and free bed.
India's plebeian slums
Doesn't it sound particularly incredible, and does it feel like India has even accomplished ****productivism? The truth is certainly not as rosy as the theory suggests. India has indeed achieved free healthcare legally and theoretically, but only theoretically.
This free healthcare is not as wonderful as one would think. The biggest problem is that the resources for free healthcare cannot keep up with India's huge population, which means that while you can get free healthcare, it's up to you to queue up and say when you can get it.
Indian hospitals
I'm sure many of you have seen Chinese spouting off about the healthcare system in developed countries like the US and Europe. In the more economically advanced Western developed countries with stronger government pockets, naturally free healthcare for all is better realized than in India, but according to the general feedback from international students and locals, they don't enjoy this free healthcare as much as they thought they would.
A famous example is when you cut your arm while chopping vegetables and it bleeds. Common sense would dictate that you go to the hospital immediately to stop the bleeding, but what do you do when you get there? A hospital with free medical care will tell you that you need to wait in line to register.
The queue is often very long, and after six hours when you get to the queue, either you have already bled to death, or the wound is automatically coagulated, the so-called free medical care basically does not play much of a role.
Indian society
Even some foreign students have provided such a horrifying case: after getting acute appendicitis, the free medical hospital he registered with asked him to come back after 6 months because, after 6 months, he could only be scheduled for this surgery, and in fact, if the acute appendicitis is not operated on right away, the patient's life would even be in danger.
So Westerners who enjoy free health care are not as comfortable as we think they are, and they are constantly spitting and complaining about it, while India, which is even more economically backward, with an even more corrupt government, and densely populated than Europe and the United States, is naturally in a similar situation than it has ever been.
For the vast majority of ordinary Indians, health care resources within their communities are extremely scarce, and the standard of doctors is hardly satisfactory, as high-level doctors apparently prefer to go to private hospitals with better incomes and conditions.
Private hospitals
For the vast majority of Indians, going to a public hospital is not an option if they don't have to, because treatment in a poorly resourced and substandard public hospital is not only time-consuming and unsatisfactory, but also aggravates the condition if you get infected with other diseases.
The state of public hospitals is particularly worrisome when it comes to infectious diseases. Therefore, for the rich class in India, especially the middle class and above, they simply do not go for the free public hospitals, and lose the private hospitals with more advanced equipment, better doctors, and more resources, which cost them more money, but, they can enjoy more perfect medical conditions.
The Taj Mahal in India
Of course, spouting so much does not mean that India's healthcare is worthless. Indian healthcare still has its merits.
First, for the vast majority of ordinary Indian civilians, free medical conditions, although poor, but still gives them a way to cure the disease, rather than like other poor countries like poor people, can only be simmering at home, life and death by fate.
Second, India's generic drugs, I believe that many people are not unfamiliar, India relies on national legislation to legalize generic drugs, although this line of action in the international community is not popular, to a certain extent, but also to combat the development of original drugs.
Generic drugs in India
But for the vast majority of India's poor, generics have dramatically reduced the price of medicine, making potent medicines that would otherwise be affordable only to the rich available to the poor, and thus saving countless lives in the general population and even the poorer sections of the population.
The movie "I am not the God of Medicine" is the best proof, the movie is about the protagonist from India to buy cheap Indian generic Ghrelin, to save the story of countless leukemia patients. And the protagonist Chen Yong did so, is because the efficacy and genuine drug efficacy is basically similar to the Indian generic drug is cheaper than than the genuine many times. Genuine medicine to 40,000 yuan per bottle, while the Indian production of the same efficacy of the drug as long as 2,000 dollars.
Indians
In fact, for a country and nation, health care, in the final analysis, is still determined by the economy. India, although the law provides for a universal free health care system, but, limited to the undeveloped economy and up to 1.4 billion people, India's free health care, but also just look very beautiful. According to statistics, India's annual neonatal mortality rate is as high as 22 percent, a large part of which could have been avoided through medical treatment.
Every day, countless Indians, die because of lack of access to medical care or medical malpractice. In the most critical aspect of money, the economy is already underdeveloped India, health care investment is even less than 1% of GDP, so the investment and economy, India's free health care effect can be imagined.