India has a large population, why is free medical care implemented?

For any country, education, medical care and housing are related to the development of people's livelihood? Three big mountains? . Among them, medical care is directly related to people's health and has become a top priority. For developed welfare countries, most of them have established a perfect medical security system, even providing it to the whole people and foreign permanent residents free of charge. Surprisingly, India, a country with a per capita GDP of just over $2,000, has also achieved free medical care for all. As we all know, India has a large population and limited financial resources, so how does it achieve free medical care for all?

Free medical care in India comes from its constitution. The Constitution of India stipulates that the provision of medical care in India should be the responsibility of the state government rather than the central federal government. It makes every state responsible? The responsibility of improving the nutrition and living standards of its people and improving its public health? . However, the actual situation is not optimistic. In fiscal year 2020, the total expenditure on health care in India's central and local budgets was 2.6 trillion rupees, accounting for only 1.29% of India's GDP. This is a very low level all over the world. It is simply unrealistic to feed a huge population of more than 654.38+03 billion with these 2.6 trillion rubles.

There is a saying about India? Free medical care? And then what? Free is often the most expensive? Sometimes it may cost you your life. Medical care in India is indeed free, but only in public hospitals, and only free of charge. Except for some basic drugs, everything else should be done by yourself, and surgery also needs to be done by yourself. Going to public hospitals often requires a long queue. In this way, some minor diseases may be cured as soon as they are online, while some serious diseases will soon die as soon as they are online. So Indians laugh at public hospitals and say, if you hate someone, please send him to a public hospital. ?

The conditions of public hospitals in India are poor and the level is not high. Indians will not choose public hospitals even if they have some money to see a doctor, but choose private hospitals with very good conditions. Compared with public hospitals, private hospitals have more complete facilities and higher level of medical care ability. According to the report of the World Health Organization, private medical institutions in India have treated about 80% of outpatients and 60% of inpatients in India, accounting for more than 60% of medical expenses.

Free medical care in India is more of a slogan, or a beautiful yearning. A more practical solution is to establish a national medical security system. India has indeed made relevant attempts, but the results are very limited and there is a trend of polarization. The rich can spend money to buy all kinds of commercial medical insurance, accounting for only 10% of the population, and the poor can only squeeze into public medical institutions. During India's general election, Modi promised to provide a free medical insurance plan for the 500 million poor people in the country for the annual medical insurance for the treatment of serious diseases. This plan was not formally implemented until last September. Due to lack of money, the total amount of funds of the central government and local governments in India was 654.38+06 billion US dollars every year. Nowadays, the spread of the epidemic has brought great pressure to the Indian government, and it is still a question whether this plan can continue to be implemented.