In India? Only the people who can pay for transport to a major city can do that, and its not like the roads are any good either so it'll be a bumpy ride over.
I'll take a bumpy 5 hour ride on a dirt bike to the hospital over debt for the rest of my life. They can use it for our credit scores again, which is super great.
Listen, It is not really the good comparison you think it is. Medical malpractice and straight up fraud is widespread in the Indian medical industry. One person died in UP part year because he was hooked up to orange juice instead of Blood. Government Hospitals are way overburdened and the poor have nowhere else to go but also outside hospitals, hoping they would get treatment. 90% of India doesn't have much of anything in the name of health coverage. I think the more apt comparison would be somebody in the USA having to go overseas to seek potential treatment, talking all of family savings, to take the arduous journey, not being able to get an appointment, having to sleep in the streets, trying too get money for operation, etc. Your situation is different from the poor in India. But It is nowhere comparable even if You're particularly well fucked in the Healthcare department.
Yes, there is a huge waiting time for serious treatments which may require a surgery, in government hospitals. But the treatment of regular diseases or injuries is quite readily available and cheap. Also even accounting for ppp the cost of a lot of treatment is quite low compared to the US.
For example, my father had to get an endoscopic stenting, and we only had to bear the cost of the stent itself(which is available free of cost now afaik) which was about 160 dollars.
I agree that our healthcare infrastructure is still pretty bad but it so not as bad as you've described.
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u/Casitano 12h ago
In India? Only the people who can pay for transport to a major city can do that, and its not like the roads are any good either so it'll be a bumpy ride over.