Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad?

When we talk about commercialization of health care we start throwing pros and cons. But we never thought the dark side of "why can't we made it as good as commercial service"?

The fact what I can think includes the system failure (major) and the public ignorance due to lack of awareness. Have we ever thought why commercial system give better performance or services. It is because of the strong system and check and balance. If we try to develop a strong system and check and balance we will definitely going to provide better service.

Concluding the point No need of commercialization of health only we need is to develop the right and tight system which can easily be reviewed and a sense of responsibility can be in the system. Apart from that people should also have to came forward to raise voice which can be a second check and balance.

Hello, friends, I think commercialization of health care has both advantages and disadvantages -first, if we talk about advantages, then it's good for the hospital to make people aware about their latest technologies in hospitals, their latest treatment also about their doctors who have many many years of experiences. As patients are very much attracted with more experienced highly qualified doctors. So, with these reasons I think healthcare commercialization is good.

But in the same way, it has some disadvantages also if the most qualified doctor leaves the workplace then ultimately the revenue of the hospital is merely affected. So, in my opinion, the commercialization of the hospital is done according to the best facilities and services they are providing in their hospitals. So that mouth to mouth publicity your hospital gain.

First of all I would like to say thanks to all my friends.

It is good to appreciate the topic which we get as a discussion.

As per my opinion we could say how to effect due to commercialization.

1. It runs only for earning profit by providing better facilities which is not needed. Patient is not like your lifetime customer. We should treat him like a human being. We should cure his / her disease. We should think like socialism - commercialisation - profit but we should not think like profit - commercialism.

2. As a healthcare we could say who is the customer ? In this case we came to know that when MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVE made direct contact with doctor not the real patient. In this case as a honest and genuine doctor, he should prescribe the medicine which is very economical in price and curable like genetic medicine etc.

Commercialization is definitely bad in health care as well as Education sector since it means to compromises with quality, services etc. For profit making. Since the main reason for this is privatization, I am strongly against privatization of such sectors providing with these important services to the citizens of a country. Privatization in aviation, tourism, leisure etc. Is bearable but not in health-care and education. It has lead to a situation where we are at the verge of reaching a stage when perhaps middle class and poor people will not really have the right to quality education and health-care services since private institutions and hospitals are willing to cater to the needs of the rich only.

Such basic facilities must be in the hands of the government only and it should strive to provide quality in these services.

I think people want commercialization in health care just because they feel government hospitals are not providing sufficient care to the patient and less cleanness. So, by looking into these facts I think the main problem is in the IMPLEMENTATION of the rule in the government sector. So, why are we running from our responsibilities. And private hospitals are costly just because they are spending money to buy new and advanced machines from OTHER countries. Therefore, if we start manufacturing these machines in INDIA itself, then surely they charge less, so that the common people can afford treatment there. SO, even if want COMMERCIALIZATION in health care first we need to take care of our responsibilities, we are the second largest country, therefore we need to manufacture these machines to make our TREATMENT cheaper.

Hi friends,

Commercialisation is good but some provisions should be made there for, poor people, common people, who must be facilitated financially. These provisions may be provided to BPL cardholders, persons having low annual salary, and others like these people.

Today's scenario of government hospital is very poor, and doctors do not work as per they receive salary, they focus more at their personal clinic. Sanitation problems also persist in government hospitals. Commercialisation facilitates these basic things, and after sometime competitiveness might lower the per head spending.

Government should also arrange some arrangement for the poor to help financially for medicines, government may do so by hampering pharmaceutical companies to do so, might be by providing subsidy for medicines etc.

Thank you.

Hello guys I would like to say according to me commercialization of health is good as we know health is wealth. Government has responsibility to take care of people living in their country. In our country majority of people belong to middle class family and and some of them are below poverty line. So they can't afford private hospital and costly medicines so for them commercialization of health care is must.

And government should participate in this by providing good doctors, good equipment, and generic medicines in government hospital. And their should be a seminar on health and hygiene, how to avoid diseases in slum areas. At last I want to say that according to survey fees of government hospital is low than private hospital so government of country should concentrate on to develop government hospital.

Hello friends,

Commercialisation of health care means an increase in no of health care technology, increase in no. Of yoga classes & increase in no of a private hospital. I think it is good as well as bad. Good because life is precious. In our country most of the government hospital do not have proper equipment & facilities. So increase in our health services and awareness, for quickness in treatment, for hygienic environment & for good care, commercialization is very important. But it has high cost so it is a curse for poor people. So, finally, I want to say that comm. Of health care is necessary but it should be kept in mind that we all want to live. So Keeping all treatment within the range of middle-lower class increase comm us required for a better health of our nation.

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.

Hi my dear ones,

In my point of view commercialization of healthcare means to give the responsibilities belongs to healthcare like hospitals, doctors, medicines. Whenever the responsibilities goes to people who are not working under government are show their efficiency in better ways because they get some fee for their work but this is not correct at all time because some time they won't be, reason is their negligence. If commercialization of healthcare happen then it is not be appreciated by people who are belongs to under middle class or people belongs to poverty. So, finally am concluded commercialization of healthcare is good when the government make some rules and then to do them in practice like investing more money than the need.

Thank you.