Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad?

I believe that commercialization of health care is highly dangerous cos there are many consequences wherein the humanity need to face with. According to the present scenario, commercialization has increased tremendously to vast extent that no one could ever stop from doing it when we turn to the people who're being commercialised in medical care. They're bothered only about their own profit and they look after from their own perspectives. People of this era in the medical field are least bothered about the health of the people who have been afflicted with some ailment. They never care about nothing rather than money. They tend to consume more amount of money than that is afforded for patients treatment. For an instance Members who have been working in the medical sector are making use of normal people in the society claiming that the patient has to undergo particular treatment or surgery only for the sake of grabbing more money from people though the treatment and surgery for the patients are not required in reality I think that the commercialization in medical sector is limited only to some extent. So I conclude by saying that commercialization in the present in medical care is bad according to the present scenario.

I would like to open the discussion by stating that healthcare is a basic right of each and every citizen. This is regardless of his or her economic or social status. Every person in every part of this country has aright to access affordable and quality healthcare. Adding price tags to diagnostics and treatment has led to mushrooming of private hospitals which exist only for their profits. They compromise with the standard of patient care in order to inflate their profit margins. They also conduct unnecessary diagnostic tests to raise the treatment cost. Ultimately the common man of this country suffers. I strongly feel that commercialization of healthcare is bad. It should be abolished.

Commercialization begins right from the root of system i.e a doctor who spend lakes of rupee would obviously think his profession more like commercialization to get return of his investment. Firstly government should charge nominal fees for medical students and this means only merit and deserving students should be given the chance to serve the society. Government should take the initiative to bring trust of the patients by committing better treatment at affordable price and only hire good doctors and deploy necessarily equipment for testing at affordable price. If thinking in commercial way economically if the price is nominal more of the customers will seek the service and definitely this will increase the revenue similarly government should give some concession card to the patients where they would get some discount in the treatment. This way government can be blessed by the happy recovered patient as well as government can earn some profit too.

Hi friends, I am going to discuss my point of view about commercialization about health care in India. We all know that India is a developing country and here lots of people are so pure and they can't afford their food twice in a day. In India when a man have a serious problem about health he become afraid about the money.

Here money is a big problem. We think in our country there is less number of doctor but it also true that doctors are no enough. These doctors are going to privet sector for money. No one think about common people.

In government hospital patient are treated like an animal. There is no good doctor. Patient are helpless. In these situation if we all agree for commercialization of health care common people will be died like animal. Because they can't afford the charge of privet hospital.

So I think government should take a step for life of common people.

Commercialization is not a solution for the healthcare, why because after unseen god we believe the second and seen god is DOCTOR.

Doctors studied their course as they have to do service to a society, Now we are in the generation that everyone wants conveyance irrespective of Rich & Poor. But yes Rich can afford it easily but in the case of poor, we see very rarely he/she choose private hospitals.

I would like to say which ever the technology we trying to add for the treatment in private hospitals, Install a same equipment in the government hospitals and maintain some hygiene and neat, then it's far better than going to the private one.

I conclude my point by saying commercialization of healthcare is not good.

Well, I would like to start by using an idiom that fits perfectly into this situation i.e. there are two sides of the same coin. Commercialization of health care brings with it its advantages and disadvantages and any of them can't be ignored. Let us start with the advantages :

Advantages :

1) Better equipments.
2) Better overall services (sanitation etc).
3) Promotes medical tourism.
4) Better prospects for doctors.

Disadvantages :

1) Attributing to higher medical costs that too in a poor country like India.
2) Quality of doctors is uncertain.
3) May give rise to scams and scandals.

So to conclude and going by the pros and cons of the commercialization, I guess, we can't decide whether it is boon or bane.

Hi dude.

My opinion is that the commercialization is good as well as bad. Because the people need good health to live in this world. Its very important that "LIFE IS ONCE, IT CANT COME AGAIN OR WE CANT BORN AGAIN". So we need good infrastructure to provide facilities to take treatment. It is applicable in the private sector and they treat the people good only by seeing the money which they afford.

The person "LIFE IS NOT AN PRODUCT TO BUY OR SELL", so private sector can also take effort to keep free medical camp as well as free treatment to the 60% of the middle & poor people in all over the country.

But in GOVERNMENT hospitals there is no such infrastructure to take treatment for harmful disease. Nowadays, in this sector also the doctors, staffs in the hospitals are going towards the price to take a treatment or to safe one persons life. So this issues should need to be reduced. And the government should come forward to take better decision to solve this problem.

I would like to conclude that the government should involve and have a good dealership among private hospitals to provide better infrastructure to save the people. And the government should put the order that all private sector should provide treatment to the people with low cost or keep free camp atleast twice a month.

It can definitely provide better infrastructure all over the world. And people can decide to go government as well as private sector for their further treatment. Because people think that "DOCTOR'S ARE BORN TO SAVE OTHERS LIFE. TREATED AS GOD. ".

When it comes to health care our main concern should be it\'s accessibility to the poor and needy. We need to make sure that they are able to avail them. If we commercialise it then that might become impossible because commercial sector\'s ultimate objective is to make a profit.

Surely we need better facilities but commercialisation is not the solution we are looking for. We need to see where most of our funds are going, as per studies most of it is spent importing medical equipment, so we need to make efforts to produce them locally. Our PM\'s Make in India initiative is the right step in this direction and it should focus more on this field. In my opinion what we need is better utilization of funds.

In nutshell Commercialisation of health care is bad for India.

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.

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.