I'm curious to see your thoughts on this.
Do you feel that getting treatment from a private hospital in India today is very expensive?
If no, then that's it, but if yes, why do you think it is so expensive and what are your suggestions to make it not so?
getting a lot of good responses
keep it coming
i plan to use some of them and give my opinions on them
since Mastodon doesn't allow quote tooting I'll post screen shots of some of the replies and my reply to them
first up
100% true
private health care facilities are for profit enterprises and are thus businesses
no arguments from me here
the common complaint from pretty much everyone is that private healthcare is expensive
compared to what is a question I throw out to the rest of you to ponder and help answer
@just1doctorwala Compared to average income. On an average I expect to pay not more than 5% of my income towards regular healthcare and up to 10-12% for illnesses.
However, this month when I had a headache I ended up paying almost 20% of my income towards doctors, medicines, tests etc. I am not taking into account the loss of pay in my calculations.
Now if it was something major the cost would've been prohibitive.
@just1doctorwala You have to also consider thaat clinic visits, tests and most medicines are not covered under any health insurance. This is an added expense to a middle class family.
This year I took the decision of not going for Medical Insurance because the premium is higher than my expected average expenses for regular healthcare.
Jonathan
Purva Agarwala (Dil Kashmiri)