Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad?

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 everyone,

In my view commercialization of health care has both advantages and disadvantages. We all are well aware of the condition of government hospitals, we find unhygienic environment, unavailability of doctors, there is nobody to take care immediately in cases of accidents and serious injuries, there is lack of infrastructure so the people have no choice except for visiting private hospitals and there we find proper infrastructure and proper health care facilities but they charge a huge amount for the treatment so what is the solution for the poor where they can get proper treatment?

The only solution I strongly feel is that government should come forward and take immediate action in this regard by collaborating with these health care units and provide equal treatment to all the sections of society at reasonable rates and in the meanwhile should check that there should be no compromise in the health of the people.

Hi.

I am Suresh.

Firstly Commercialization in the health sector is not a good thing for everyone. No one should want to give the huge amount of many for small treatment. But it regularly occurs in a private sector. As we consider a pregnant lady, she is afraid & wants or proper treatment but actually it does not happen we can see from last 2-4 years rate of normal delivery reduced in many folds. The private sector only provides hygiene & infrastructure but not actual service what we should expect from them. Gov hospital is lack of hygiene & infrastructure. It may be due to lack of Gov. hospital in the city. It's usually a single one. As the public demand is high it's not sufficient to work efficiently. So Gov. must be taken into consideration this view also & must have to increase host & hygiene. So it's just like as we said a "make in India." everyone should say, "let's go for gov hospital only".

In my point of view commercialization of healthcare in India is not at all good for our people. Before commercializing the system we should first implement the new policies which will raise benefits to the BPL people. One disease in a family is enough to tilt economical position. Government motto is providing the all facilities for every common man in India but it can be achieved only when we execute the policies well. Current India is spending only 3% of its GDP for Health Care development and because of corruption some of money is going into healthcare providers.

"Eat an apple for day keeps doctor away" how many are ready now in our country to buy at least an apple for a week, we should keep in mind that if we commercialize the healthcare system we may get better facilities, quality of treatment, getting rid of diseases but at a time we can see BPL people with diseases on roadsides.

Hi this is Samiksha.

I have read above all the opinions n also they are quite satisfying but I just wanted to say that Why always when there is talk about the commercial disaster the only example remain there is INDIA. I know that it may be not a developed country but in the field of medical lots of improvement has been done by INDIA. And I too think that commercialization of medicine would be regarded as the blessing for the whole nation.

If we talk about the poverty which is faced by the people while giving the fees of the private hospitals, so for that there is the phrase in Hindi that is, "Sar Salamat to Pagdi pachas". In today's world life is the important component n we have to life it not for ourselves or family but also for the nation. Poverty is not only the main reason for not supporting the commercialization of medical sciences but also less awareness about its benefits.

Commercialization of healthcare if of course not such a good idea given we can enhance our govt aided medical schools and hospitals. There is such deep routed corruption in this country that given the current status and numbers of our Govt Medical schools and hospitals, a lot of needy are not getting the treatment they deserve and expertise are being sold at higher prices to the ones who can either afford it or have contacts in the ministry.

On the other hand, if we can have proper regulations on the healthcare treatments, prices, pharma companies. It is not that bad an idea to commercialize healthcare because this will attract more investors to open hospitals and medical college thus reducing our dependence on a few big names who charge a fortune and exploit the customers.

So in the end, given our current scenario. It'll not really be beneficial to commercialize healthcare.

Its a very famous saying "money can buy anything". Even emotions, pleasures, joy etc. Can be bought in this materialistic world. But when it comes to health we can't deny the fact that it is completely dependent on the money factor. A rich person gets every accommodation only because he can afford it but on the other hand poor person starves even for a good diet and getting higher medical facilities is something what he can't even think of.

At the same time, commercialization also means increase in the cost of treatment which can be afforded only by people living in urban areas. Hospitals would therefore become inaccessible by rural people. Doctors, for profit, may ask for a lot of tests to be done which again cannot be afforded by the poor. Poor people can only get benefit from government hospitals. So govt should take steps to improve the conditions of public hospitals. !

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 of Health Care promises better infrastructure, better medical facilities, and technological advancement. Private hospitals are also well-maintained in comparison to government hospitals. But then, their charges are high. Poor and middle-class people cannot afford it. This will contradict the very purpose of having better health care system. So, keeping this in mind, the government should issue guidelines and formulate policies that benefit both hospitals and people. The government should constantly monitor private hospitals and take severe action in case of any mistreatment. If possible, the government should provide subsidy to poor. I would like to conclude by saying that the commercialization of healthcare is important for the development of the nation but can only be a success when done with proper care and righteousness.

Good evening everyone.

According to me, today's commercialization of health care is bad because of the worst of politics. Because of people have not aware of health care.

I think 75% of the Indian family is middle-class family so they can not afford high charge of hospitals. And approximately 40-45% of people can not effort hospital charges at all because they live below the poverty line, and that 75% and above of people generally need more health care than rich people just because of their standard of life. They consume less quality products due to their low income which directly affects their health and the number of those people is very high in India. So, the Commercialization of health care is not good, that's all. And I think politics and rich people can handle the health care of India if they donate money and some help to poor people.