We all know that India is the second most populous country after ours, with a population of 1.324 billion, and from their current growth rate, it is possible to overtake us in the next few years to become the world's first populous country. Although India's current population is large, rapid economic development, but India's 2018 GDP is only 2.7 trillion U.S. dollars, the per capita GDP is only 1978 U.S. dollars, in such a situation why India can implement universal free health care?
In fact, comprehensive free medical care is not just India, there are 62 countries around the world are free medical care, for some European and other Western countries, there is indeed such an economic basis, in addition to its own national population is not much, free medical care is extenuating. And India has a population of 1.3 billion, the implementation of free health care, it is a little let you wonder.
India's free health care system is written into the Constitution, as long as you people in India, whether Indian or foreigners, can go to public hospitals to receive free medical services, and a nutritious meal. There is a historical reason why India does this.
India has a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and there are still hundreds of millions of poor people. In the 1980s, due to too many poor people, the low level of medical care, coupled with the inability to afford to see a doctor, resulting in a surge in the number of deaths due to illness in India, for which the Indian government established a coverage to the rural areas of the "three-tiered health care network", from now on do not spend money on medical care, medication is also not costly. The people only need to go to the medical clinic to prescribe and then to the pharmacy to get medicine can be, and finally simply in the public hospital directly launched a one-stop service. So the main reason for India to engage in comprehensive free medical care is that there are too many poor people and can not afford to see the disease, the mortality rate is too high.
But we all know that the free stuff certainly will not be much better, go to India's public hospitals, long lines, lack of doctors, lack of beds, lack of drugs, lack of equipment, poor environment, the embarrassing situation is always there. See a doctor for a few hours, a few days, a long time may have to line up a few months of time, many people fantasize about India's free health care, the truth is that the Indian people are lined up in long lines to receive free disinfectant water and red potion only, really encountered a serious illness, the poor can only wait for death. India's annual revenue of only 236 billion U.S. dollars, if all used in the free health care per capita is only more than 100 U.S. dollars, more than 100 U.S. dollars in the level of medical care can be good to where, and the country's financial income and can not all be used to do the free health care, so the per capita cost of medical care in India can be said to be pathetic low. The really rich people don't set foot in public hospitals, they go to high level private hospitals for better services and medical standards.
In short, it's not true that India has free healthcare for all, but due to the country's economic base, wealth gap, infrastructure and so on are all very imperfect, the healthcare services that can be enjoyed are very limited, and it's not as wonderful as we imagined, so we don't need to be envious of India's free healthcare.