Modicare: India plans free healthcare for 500 million Indians

[Android_Halwa]

5 hours ago, AryaD said:

Kaneesam gas cylinders kuda vundavu kada government hospitals but they allocate lot of funds and those funds goes to corrupt officials . Poor people baathukulu daarunam baa .

Exactly, health funds are being misused to a larger extent and we have seen it for the last 70 years. Better we transfer these facilities t private players and let them take care of these welfare part and let the government pay their bills. 

Osmania Hospital, on an average, treats 3000-5000 people outpatients every day and at any given time, there are 5000+ patients in the hospital coming from various districts. If such districts are equipped with private hospitals and people have the capacity to pay up to 5 lakhs with govt assurance, these people will try to get treatment in those hospitals rather than coming to Osmania Hospitals..It's within reach and target and often they will be closer to health care facilities which will avoid further life loss. 

 

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14 hours ago, Kumaravarma said:

Potti badacow maa aunty lechipoindi @himacream thoni . Nuvvu pelli chesukuntava maa widow aunty ni

divorcee kada

[argadorn]

hospitals will have last laugh...

[Manthrii]

Stupidity

[alpachinao]

Entha workout avuthundo chudali naku ekkado koduthundi

[argadorn]

Just now, alpachinao said:

Entha workout avuthundo chudali naku ekkado koduthundi

starting  lo baganey implement chestharu ....  after 2 years nunchi scams start avuthay indialo...

[alpachinao]

9 minutes ago, argadorn said:

starting  lo baganey implement chestharu ....  after 2 years nunchi scams start avuthay indialo...

Naku election jimick anipisthundi bodi big mistake jaitely FM ga vundadam pikkindi ledu modinomics did bad than good... Definitely it may cost 2019 should be time for small parties

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[TOM_BHAYYA]

15 hours ago, sid_22 said:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi latest blockbuster policy is an ambitious plan to give hundreds of millions of people greater access to hospitals.

The government said Thursday it plans to cover hospital treatment costs of up to 500,000 rupees ($7,800) per year for 100 million "poor and vulnerable" families. That's more than 15 times the amount poor families in India can currently claim from the government.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley estimated that around 500 million people will benefit from the program.

If the program is fully taken up, it would cost close to $780 billion, a huge sum for India's $2.4 trillion economy.

"India cannot realize its demographic dividend without its citizens being healthy," Jaitley said, referring to the country's large young population. "The government is steadily but surely progressing towards the goal of universal health coverage," he added, during a speech presenting his annual budget.

Jaitley said "adequate funds will be provided for smooth implementation" of the plan, but did not elaborate. Finance ministry officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Access to healthcare is a major problem in India. Public hospitals are few in number and often underfunded and understaffed.

India has just over 1 million registered doctors and fewer than 15,000 state hospitals for its 1.3 billion people, according to government data released last year.

Total spending on healthcare in India averaged $267 per person in 2014 -- the latest year for which data is available -- compared to $9,403 in the United States, $3,377 in Britain and $731 in China, according to the World Bank.

Many Indians have no choice but to use private hospitals, where treatment is unaffordable for someone earning the average annual wage of less than $2,000.

That forces many to go deep into debt or sell their valuables and other assets to pay for treatment.

The government is already trying to bring healthcare closer to rural Indians by establishing 150,000 "health and wellness centers," a separate program to which Jaitley allocated around $190 million in the budget.

"These are significant steps towards universal health coverage," Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director for South-East Asia at the World Health Organization, told CNNMoney

 

1 lakh crores anta............. Evadi abba sommu ani istunnadu........... Middle class and Taxpayers ki matram emi undavu........... its always the billionaires and labor who get all the goodies from the system......... Obamacare lagane M gudisipotadi.

Could be central-state 60-40 lo implement cheyochanta.. inka ap sanka chupoyyadame bodi ki

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9 hours ago, Android_Halwa said:

You are talking about vaccine distribution and I'm talking about health care.

India has eradicated smallpox and polio...and for this eradication, it almost took 30 years and to administer the vaccine, you do not need infrastructure. All that you need is a box filled with vaccines and a person to administer who is usually primary health care provider who is grade-4 category employee.  

Whereas to treat a person and provide health care, you need to have the infrastructure, staff, training facilities, etc. 

With this scheme, Govt is assuring private healthcare players to provide facilities and the payments are assured. With this reach,  more and more private facilities will come up spurning heavy economic activity and no poor person will be denied health care on economic grounds anymore, in fact, all poor people will be welcomed to these private hospitals. Remember, there is a 5 lakh ceiling limit.

This ceiling limits will curtail the cost of major surgeries to below 5 lakhs considering poor people won't be able to pay from their pocket and govt not willing to pay more than 5 lakhs, most surgeries which are even costing more than 5 lakhs, the price will be curtailed to be under 5 lakhs. 

Its a win-win situation for govt, people and encourage a new business model: Private healthcare facilities with returns assured. 

india lo thiney thindi lekunda unnaru 30%, nuvvu private health care antunnav.

tp show yourself as smart, emanna chepthavu nuvvu.

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9 hours ago, Android_Halwa said:

Exactly, health funds are being misused to a larger extent and we have seen it for the last 70 years. Better we transfer these facilities t private players and let them take care of these welfare part and let the government pay their bills. 

Osmania Hospital, on an average, treats 3000-5000 people outpatients every day and at any given time, there are 5000+ patients in the hospital coming from various districts. If such districts are equipped with private hospitals and people have the capacity to pay up to 5 lakhs with govt assurance, these people will try to get treatment in those hospitals rather than coming to Osmania Hospitals..It's within reach and target and often they will be closer to health care facilities which will avoid further life loss. 

 

lol. there are already private hospitals. vaallu emi peekinaaru.

private hospitals ni cheap cheyyatam is million times harder than regularising govt hosp.

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26 minutes ago, TOM_BHAYYA said:

Could be central-state 60-40 lo implement cheyochanta.. inka ap sanka chupoyyadame bodi ki

itla prathi daanlo cheyyi petti state govt ni puppet chesthara?

next law and order maintenance ani, daanlo kooda 50-50 power share antaru.

state cms andaru dummy idiots laaga unnaru. thooo

[uttermost]

think before you type man, halwa.

[uttermost]

1 hour ago, alpachinao said:

Entha workout avuthundo chudali naku ekkado koduthundi

thokkalo work out avthundi. govt hospitals anni state  govt vi. veellaki danam cheyyamantara.

10 mandi chamchalu untey emanna cheppochu anukuntunnaru

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netherlands has the best system, where ypu pay for basic health care, and the govt takes care of huge expenses, loke chronic illness or accidents.