This feels like a logistical and a financial hell, I don't wanna even think how they would cover the overcrowed metropolitan cities and the rural town. But if they manage to pull this off, hats off to them really.
Whilst scale does make these things more difficult, China have socialised medicine, and China's population is even larger.
In fairness, China is structured far less chaotically especially in regards to major cities, but I'm sure India will pull this off very well anyway. If they can administer and police a population that large, I'm sure they can set up the necessary infrastructure to support their health as well.
Good luck to them, I hope it works out well.
I can not fucking believe we are living in a world where India is going to have free healthcare before the U.S. does.
Oh, I can.
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Yeah, I ended up looking up the statistics myself. We're one of only 45 countries in the world that has no public health care of any kind. It just boggles the mind how people think this makes us great.
I'm actually a little confused by how the map says the US is 'Universal Healthcare in Transition.' I don't know what it means, but it does look like the US is the worst country for which there's available data.
China isn't a 20 layer cake of bureaucracy and red tape.
That's both a good and bad thing. China gets shit done, no doubt about that, but they can because they're an authoritarian dictatorship. And we also know that their whole country is built on a massive economic bubble that is going to eventually burst. So its questionable whether it's citizens will be better off in the long run compared to ours.
This isn't an argument against universal heathcare - this is just an argument against the idea that having universal heathcare makes you a good country. As bad as our country is in many respects, I would still much rather live here than in China. But we're still one of the worst countries that is classified as a "western democracy," if not the worst.
People in the US have been campaigning for better healthcare for decades, Theodore Roosevelt had universal healthcare (if I'm reading what was in the party platform right) in his Progressive Party platform.
Also I don't like how they always make it name-care, Romneycare, Obamacare, Trumpcare, Berniecare, evidently Modicare. It's tribalistic and puts the whole onus of the program to one dude.
Agree with that, though keep in min this is CNN's spin - not sure if people in India actually call it anything like that.
There are plenty of nations out there that aren't authoritarian holes and don't suffer the quagmire of red tape.
Obamacare wasn't ever a term used by the people promoting it though. It was just a conservative smear - because by their logic Obama in the title automatically makes it bad.
I assume they labeled it "in transition" because of the ACA, which was sorta a midway point towards Universal Healthcare, but they definitely don't match that description anymore thanks to the Republicans.
If I remember correctly, isn't Modi a promoter of homeopathy and alternative/traditional "medicine?"
china isn't exactly doing a great job in its western regions, most of the money has gone to the coast.
to some degree yes
he’s backed by one of the most populist “gurus” in all of India.
AFIK they like yoga, and tend to prefer natural healing methods if possible, I don’t think it’s as stringent as the jehovas witness’s or anything like that though.
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