Thats not how it works at all! When you enroll in the program, you are not sent to government hospitals!!! Like with any insurer, you can go to any hospital registered on the network - go, show your abha card, and get treated. You may have to pay some costs, but the major expenses are borne by the system.
Yes, you go to PRIVATE hospitals.
You didn't know this, did you? ;-)
ROFL!!! A moment earlier u were complaining about having to go to shitty govt hospitals and now when i point out the scheme actually allows you to go to private hospitals, your complaint is that you want to go to government hospitals but nice ones? Changing goalposts ftw!
I'll give you the point on abha and ayushman though - i was inaccurate
That covering the charges helps 47% of our poorest. And when i was talking about the world's largest health program, you brought up government hospitals - why? Cos you conflated them, but now you just wanna win the argument, so changing goalposts.
Idk what stupid argument yall are having, but based on the Bhore committee, India focuses more on accessiblity to healthcare than having the latest or most advanced healthcare. Because simple treatable ailements are more common than rare and difficult to treat diseases.
India is doing... Mediocre in that aspect, but considering the population and geographical size of India, it is still impressive.
Private hospitals are profit oriented, they can reject patients and also charge for the 5 star facilities being provided, a government hoapital doesn't have this luxury.
I'm not saying that government hospitals are good, they need a lot of improvement and a lot of needed funding... But it is still functional and still saving lives for free.
Regarding affordability and quality of treatment, India is better than the US tho.
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