Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad?

Health care is a necessity required by every individual whether rich or poor. Hence, the government should try to ensure that every citizen has access to certain standard healthcare facilities. In a country like India where more than 30% of the population lives in BPL according to international standards, definitely commercialization of healthcare will cause havoc.

India has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. It is obvious that the children victim to malnutrition and other fatal diseases mostly belong to destitute families who cannot afford expensive healthcare and doctor bills. In such situation, commercializing the healthcare system would deprive them of even basic healthcare facilities.

Private healthcare organizations may begin to exploit people by charging exorbitant rates. Also, they might even take to unethical malpractices to make profits.

Agreed that Indian health-care is lacking in terms of technology and the service provided is extremely poor. However, commercialization of healthcare is definitely not the solution. The Indian government at present spends around 2% of its GDP in Healthcare which is far less than the world average of 5%. Increasing this expenditure might bring considerable improvement in the healthcare facilities.

An excellent example of Government supported healthcare is USA. It has around 60% of the healthcare sector run by non-profit organizations and 18% by the government yet has succeeded in providing standard healthcare facilities to majority of its population.

Greeting,

In our human growing family, two rights are backbone of the human race. Let me not mince words. Any government which does not provide has failed the citizens. These are needs not privileges.

1. Right to education.
2. Right to medicine and medical treatment.

These two areas are 'sevas " it has no room for profiteering. These two are the core requirement of any society. In fact, they are pillars of human society. This guarantees equality and the person remains useful when the person is developed in mind. And body. The role of Nature's cure can not be underscored. Herbs and ayurvedic medicines have historical evidence. They heal in a holistic fashion. Whereas allopathy has the best diagnostic tools. These two need to be married in a way, where the best result comes out, leading to affordable universal health care, a dream of any government. Kindly remember body has the ability to treat itself if we know how to assist it. This is the very function of Ayurveda. Modern medicine comes into play for just ten per cent of the cases. However, we are applying to most patients and skyrocketing the cost. This involves, where all disciplines of medicine coming together to draw a protocol that is cost-effective and result oriented.

I see this happening, most hospitals have established Ayurveda centres, and people look for medical help by their choosing. Thus this is not a concerted effort, there should be a well-planned protocol by putting all disciplines of medicines together and evolving it.

I would say that we need better infrastructure, more staffs & technical equipment in the government hospitals, instead of commercialization of the entire health sector. Because every country and its government has the responsibility to take care of its poor people. The poor people cannot afford the high rate of health care in the private hospitals. If the government can spend millions of dollars for building metro rails, stadiums, etc, they can surely afford the cost to improve the government hospitals. The basic factor which I focus is that, if we have to set something right, we need to start from the base.

If we are concentrating on developing the private hospitals and the world class medical systems there, the result will be the same as today. The poor people will have to adjust with the floor of the government hospitals, and the wealthy people will be resting in AC hospital rooms. That condition is not going to benefit the society. What we need is an equality in the healthcare that the people of our country receives.

I understand that with high technology, high cost also come along. But I'm sure that that cost will not be higher than the unwanted expenses of government. In India, we have seen corruptions worth trillions, despite the fact that 40% of the country are on the verge of poverty line. So, if we plan to develop the medical field, we need to first set up good facilities in the government hospitals. This is how I reach in my opinion, healthcare should not be commercialized.

Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad?

Hello Friends,

As per my understanding, commercialization of health care is goods hospital with having better facilities, nursing care and technology, provide better access, for people, but it also means that private owned hospitals. When it comes to the privately owned hospital then it means that no support is provided to them by the government. It's like that they have to take care of their hospital by their own ways. In such case maintenance of all the machines provided by the hospital is important and necessary which can be used again, but this is all done by money and their resources is we people and for the maintenance of the hospital private hospital are very expensive. I do agree that some hospital are exploiting patients crazily but not all.

If a person is financially strong it can be manageable but if a person is financially week then the problem starts. In such case, I would request the government to provide a subsidy for health too. It would be like win-win situation because all the people who live here is paying taxes, and government Can happily take care of them. Health is wealth, and development too.

But if in any case government Is not able to provide subsidy in medication for the private hospital then government Should work on government Hospitals we have in our India. They have to take every action required to improve the miserable situation of the hospital in India.

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Today a lot of commercial health care franchises are coming up in India. The only reason for this is ignorance of government towards public healthcare. Today, if we go to a public/government hospital, we do not see a lot of infrastructures, sanitation, effective management system and efficient usage of resources. All we see is frustration on faces of patients and tensed doctors and nurses. So I strongly feel that commercialization of healthcare is not good. Instead, the government should implement some strict policies so as to ensure that all the facilities, comfort and medical attention that is being provided in the commercial healthcare facility is available in public/government hospitals at a lower cost. I feel that the government shout makes allies with commercial healthcare facilities and come up with a productive solution which would be useful to both rich and poor in India. Because today if we see, a lot of people when ill turn towards commercial healthcare facility and pay a huge fee for the luxurious rooms, lavish lobbies, AC halls and cozy beds. No doubt they have the latest equipment and highly qualified doctors but it all comes for a price which a common or poor person cannot afford. So if the government make allies with these healthcare giants, these equipment and doctors will be available in public/government hospitals also so that everyone can prevail the advantage of healthcare.

Commercialization of health care is not at all acceptable as it leads to money laundering through doctors and makes the wealth concentrated in the hands of the branded health care service providers. It hones the skills to tap the unlimited opportunities it gets by providing health care for higher rates thus making these institutions the "money foxes." Privatization can lead to dominate the health care sector by showing its monopoly nature and makes the service of health care availability for poorer a mirage. It squeezes the money for their wealth hunger from the poor. Though quality is a positive side of commercialization of health care; it doesn't mean it will always deliver the right service for the innocent people. It may further lead to black marketing of blood, organs and other medically valuable parts from the patients who cannot raise their voice if anything happens against them. Medical scams are a possibility if the health care commercialization takes place, leaving no space for poorer to avail the opportunity of getting best health care services.

Commercialization of health care with proper involvement of government in fixing the costs and administering the facilities, services offered with periodic monitoring can be a conclusion that can be achieved on commercialization of health care.

Good morning everyone.

So, our topic of discussion is Commercialization of Healthcare is good or bad. First of all, we get to know about the meaning of commercialization. Commercialization of health care means Better infrastructure of hospitals, better nursing facilities, Highly educated doctor available.
Why commercialization is needed?

According to WHO in the condition of a government hospital in India is not so good. Government hospitals are not well hygiene. The ratio of bed to population is very less.

As we know every coin has two faces:

Advantages of commercialization of healthcare:

1. Better health care facility.
2. Better infrastructure.
3. Well hygiene environment
4 Treatment takes place in a short time
5 Better availability of medicines

Disadvantages of Communication:

1. Poverty: In India very large number Of the population is poor they can't afford the commercialized hospital.
2. High Fees of hospitals.
3. Corruption. And Partiality.

Conclusion: Healthcare is basic need because everyone loves to stay fit...but everyone can't afford high fees hospital so govt should provide some subsidiary to poor people's and govt should do health insurance of poor peoples. By keeping all the above things in mind Commercialization of healthcare is good.

Thank you.

The need of commercialization has arisen because of poor healthcare facilities provided by the government hospitals. Indian government makes lots of promises to improve the standard of the government hospital in every 5 year plan but in actual only 20% of expenditure is done on healthcare in public sector in India unlike 95% in sweden, 44% in USA. The hygiene, availability of doctors, conditions of washroom, water supply and food supply to the patient is poor. Therefore people prefer to switch to the private hospitals.

Doctors spend lots and lots of money to get the degree and knowledge of their course so they can take reasonable money from their patients to run their hospitals so that 24 hours medicine, food, water, doctor facilities can be provided to them.

Therefore at last I would like to conclude that there is a benefit of commercialization, government should increase the government hospitals standard and send proper regulatory authorities to check the conditions of the hospital time to time, regulatory guidelines should be made for both private and public funded hospitals. A dialog can also be provided by the healthcare authority to think on the need to look a hospital like a 5 star hotel, expensive medicinal equipments which are not really required.

Given to discuss this topic, the first point to be stated here is care in any form cannot and should not be commercialized ever! In the Indian subcontinent, doctors are treated as gods where the helpless patient's family entrusts fully on the doctor to be provided with the best kind of treatment ensuring a healthy recovery of the patient. But the reality is this helpless state of the patient's family is being misused by the hospital authority to brag in huge sums of money. Every other day we come across such news where doctors have charged lumpsum on even a dead patient. In such a gruesome situation whom shall a commoner trust? The life is gone and the family is burdened with an incalculable sum of money. Commercialization and globalization is good for Indian economy but certainly not in healthcare sector which deals with lives. The government should provide adequate funding and infrastructure to hospitals. Instead of commercialization, new technologies should be adopted to enhance our healthcare framework. Cash inflows should be properly channelized for proper infrastructure development rather than satisfying personal greed. Free healthcare camps should be set up for the poor so that health care is accessible by every citizen in every part of the country.

Hello friends.

In my opinion, commercialization of health care is not good.

That's true that the commercialization improves the techniques and treatment, also provides good facilities to the patients, but that also true that it increases the prices of the treatment and medicines. And it becomes unaffordable to the middle class or poor people to get the treatment from such hospitals. And because of the private hospitals or clinics, the condition of government hospitals is getting bad.

Most of the time, there is no doctor because they are in their private clinics, or if they are there, then they don't give much time to the patient and want them to come to their clinic. It is ok for the rich people, but a middle class family cannot afford this and therefore they have to compromise with their health.

But since, it is more profitable to the doctors, therefore, the doctors prefer to give the time to their private clinics that leads to the decrement in the government hospitals.

So, my suggestion is this that the government should take care of the government hospitals with better facilities and good medical treatment instead of increasing the private sectors so that both the rich as wall as the poor people could get the better medical care.