The private health sector in India

摘要: Is burgeoning, but at the cost of public health care F oreigners in increasing numbers are now coming to India for private care. They come from Middle East, Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, complex paediatric cardiac surgery or liver transplants—procedures that not done their home countries. also United Kingdom, Europe, North America quick, efficient, cheap coronary bypasses orthopaedic procedures. A shoulder operation UK would £10 000 ($17 460; €14 560) privately entail several months' wait under NHS. In India, same can be £1700 within 10 days a first email contact.1 The recent remarkable growth sector has time when spending on 0.9% gross domestic product (GDP) is among lowest world ahead only five countries—Burundi, Myanmar, Sudan, Cambodia. This proportion fallen an already low 1.3% GDP 1991 neoliberal economic reforms began.2 Yet ranks top 20 world's countries its spending, 4.2% GDP. Employers pay 9% care, insurance …