editorial
The high cost of India’s private health-care boom
The country needs private capital to expand health care, but investment cannot be allowed to shape clinical decisions, pricing and access in ways that make care unaffordable or unnecessarily intensive
Context
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare's 176th Report has highlighted the stark disparity in healthcare costs between public and private facilities in India. This disparity, alongside the high out-of-pocket expenditure for patients, underscores the critical need for a regulatory framework for private healthcare, raising questions about the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the urgent need to strengthen the public healthcare system to provide a viable alternative.
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