Anil Sharma breaks down while talking to the Associated Press after visiting his son, Saurav, who is being treated for COVID-19 at a private hospital, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Life is tentatively returning to normal in India as coronavirus cases fall. But millions are embroiled in a nightmare of huge piles of medical bills. Most Indians don't have health insurance and costs for COVID-19 treatment have them drowning in debt.
Life has been tentatively returning to normal in India as coronavirus cases have fallen. But millions are embroiled in a nightmare of huge piles of medical bills. Most Indians don’t have health insurance and costs for COVID-19 treatment have them drowning in debt.Sharma exhausted his savings on paying for an ambulance, tests, medicines and an ICU bed. Then he took out bank loans.
The pandemic has devastated India’s economy, bringing financial calamity to millions at the mercy of its chronically underfunded and fragmented healthcare system. Experts say such costs are bound to hinder an economic recovery. “If you’re looking at what pushes people into debt or poverty, the top two sources often are out-of-pocket health expenditure and catastrophic costs of treatment,” said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India.
A health insurance scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 was intended to cover around 500 million of India’s 1.3 billion people and was a major step toward easing medical costs. But it doesn’t cover the primary care and outpatient costs that comprise most out-of-pocket expenses. So it hasn’t “effectively improved access to care and financial risk protection,” said a working paper by researchers at Duke University.
2 simple words to the hospitals... “You’re beat!”
Hmm...that 'other' great 'democracy', capitalistic society.
Its very unfortunate actually. We went through the whole cycle and saw many patients dying due to cost and govt mismanagement. Its a life time scar for us.
This is why we need system like NHS all over world & people MUST pay their taxes. No one is under debt in UK due to health costs. Indian govt state/center has historically shy away from taking ownership of quality health, education and other basic facilities.
Time to introduce an Indian NHS to relieve the burden om the people.
All according to plan
Universal Helathcare would solve this...but Oligarch Greed and Capitalism say NO! and Yes to Exploitation. Rise up. Dont stand for it. Get Political Get Active. The Oligarchs are behind all the neoliberalism and trickle down economics ruining all our lives.
The people in India should not be responsible for medical bills related to Covid. This is a pandemic. That’s why there is government…to take care of its people in crisis like this.
Welcome to America, India.
That's happening in this country too. Hospital stays are not free. Even if one has insurance, there are co-pay. Too many people in this country are either uninsured or under insured.
The world is on fire, can we do this later?
Private hospitals are white collar daytime ROBBERS . Urgent need for a regulatory body like Hospitat Ombudsman to take these rouge bulls by horn
تتراجع حالات الإصابة بفيروس كورونا في الهند ، لكن الملايين يواجهون فواتير طبية ضخمة. فمعظم الهنود ليس لديهم تأمين صحي وتكاليف علاج فيروس_كورونا_المستجد تسبب الغرق في الديون للكثيرين.
Is this also happening in America? You would think so. But it’s not widely reported on the news.
So they’re getting treated like Americans now.
Hindus should drink cow urine It is the best medicine for covid
A system that only works outside of a crisis isn’t a functional system, it’s a problem waiting to happen.
Hmm gee this sounds so familiar...
Mult i millionaires and billionaires of India should show their humanity and come to t he aid of their people, by helping them in their medical debts, Instead of Storing their mo ney in foreign banks. Need global assistance. Professor Isagholian, humanities
Debts?Are you sure that Indian government won't pay for the medical cost of Covid-19?
Americans have the SAME PROBLEM
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You should do one of these for the US. It's not as if we don't face the same fate.
In the USA medical bills are the no 1 cause of financial default by what's left of the middle class.
how come he has no eyebrows?
Literally Pajeeted
good luck
no one knows why the delta outbreak retreated in india at it's height, just as there's been no explanation as to why delta infection in the uk are now subsiding
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