Why does India have free healthcare when its population is so large and its economy is not very developed?
As we all know, India is a big country in Asia, with the second largest population in the world, about to overtake China. But India's economy is not very developed, and the gap between the rich and the poor is so wide that most people in the country are poor, making it a typical developing country. However, India has implemented a free health care system, knowing that free health care is mostly exclusive to developed or rich countries, such as Northern Europe or some Middle Eastern countries, if there is not enough manpower and financial resources, free health care is very difficult to realize.
However, as the development of the country's India has implemented this initiative, the recent famous backpackers traveling to India, learned that India from 1949, the adoption of the first Constitution has clearly stipulated that all Indian nationals can enjoy free health care, as long as it is in India, to public hospitals can be exempted from the cost of medicines, inspection fees, registration fees, consultation fees and so on.
But the backpacker couldn't figure out why, in his opinion, India's society is not as rich as people would like it to be, and the rich are very rich, the poor are really poor, and the overall economy is still far from being developed, so why is it possible to implement free healthcare? In some exchanges with the locals, the locals told the backpackers, in his opinion, their country will implement free medical care, on the one hand, because of the need to inherit the democratic system, on the other hand, may be in order to vote, but the most important thing is to hope that the nationals if they are sick can be treated in a timely manner.
But is free healthcare in India really what we think it is? The locals and backpackers said that free free medical care does not mean that all hospitals in India can be realized, is limited to public hospitals, but the number of public hospitals can not meet the needs of India's population size, and there are some public hospitals medical environment is very general, the facilities are also very old, for the manufacture of medical machinery and the invention of the need for adequate financial support and technical support, but both of these are relatively inadequate in India.
Under these conditions, public hospitals can only deal with more common illnesses, such as fever and colds, while most of those big diseases such as organ transplants, chemotherapy and other serious illnesses can only be seen in private hospitals. So rich people in India, when they can, choose to spend money to go to private hospitals with better environment and complete medical equipment and team.