India has a large population, why has free health care been introduced?

For any country, education, healthcare and housing are all about the development of people's livelihood? Three big mountains? In which medical care is more directly related to the people's health, it has become the most important. For the developed welfare state, most of the establishment of a comprehensive health care system, and even for all the people and permanent foreign residents free of charge. Surprisingly, India, a country with a per capita GDP of just over two thousand dollars, has also realized universal free health care. As we all know, India has a large population and very limited finances, so how does it achieve free healthcare for all?

India's free healthcare comes from its constitution. The Constitution of India states that the provision of healthcare in India should be the responsibility of the state governments and not the central government. It makes it incumbent on each state to ? the responsibility of improving the nutritional level and standard of living of its people and improving its public ****ing health? Yet the reality is not encouraging. India's total central and local budget healthcare expenditure for FY2020 is Rs 2.6 trillion, which is only 1.29% of India's GDP. This is at a very low level in the world. Trying to afford a huge population of over 1.3 billion people with this Rs 2.6 trillion is simply not realistic.

There is a saying that describes India's ? free healthcare? and that is? What is free is often the most expensive? and sometimes it can cost lives. Medical care in India is indeed free, but it is limited to public hospitals and only waives the cost of treatment, except for some basic medicines, which are free, but you still have to pay for them yourself, and surgeries also need to be paid for on your own. There is often a queue, and a long queue, to go to a public hospital for treatment. The result is that some minor illnesses may be cured by the time you get on the line, while some serious illnesses are dying by the time you get on the line. So Indians mock public hospitals claiming that ? If you hate a person then send him to a public hospital.?

The public hospitals in India are in very poor condition and are not of a high standard. Indians who have a little bit of money for medical treatment do not choose public hospitals but private hospitals which are in very good condition. Compared to public hospitals, private hospitals have more complete facilities and a higher level of health care capacity. According to the World Health Organization report shows that India's private medical institutions admitted about 80% of outpatients and 60% of inpatients in India, the proportion of medical out-of-pocket expenses more than 60% more.

India's free healthcare is more of a slogan or a good aspiration, and a more practical solution would be to establish its own national healthcare system. India does try to do this, but the results are very limited and polarized. The rich can pay for all kinds of commercial health insurance, which accounts for only 10 percent of the population, while the poor are forced to go to public health care facilities. During India's election campaign, Modi promised a one-point free health insurance program for the nation's 500 million poor for annual medical coverage for serious illnesses. The program was not officially implemented until last September due to a lack of money, which will consume a total of ****1.6 billion dollars a year from the central and local governments. Now that the spread of the epidemic has put pressure on the Indian government, it is doubtful that the program will continue.