[RoadieRoller]

India is considered a "cheap and poor" country in many ways. It's GDP is 1/10th that of United States. Even then, India has free health care, and in many states (out of the 30+ states), Govt run healthcare is the best. Woman give birth to babies and walk out paying almost nothing, men break their bones and walk out paying nothing after a month of staying in hospitals and such. Insurance is never heard of or forced to, unless you own a automobile and pays insurance to drive it on roads. No monopoly of any kind.

And there are arguments against all these points, I concur. I just said it for the American folks to know.

[zxexz]

Huh. 8 or 9 years ago I visited somebody in a hospital in rural India (maybe 100km from Hubli), and this was definitely not the case. A man was being ejected (after intake!) from the hospital with acute appendicitis because he and his family was unable to pay. There were probably 3 nurses in the hospital and 40 patients over several floors. The degraded ductwork and disgusting window mount aircon looked like legionnaires disease would kill anybody who could afford to stay.

Has a lot changed in the last decade? Is the “good” healthcare just in wealthier areas? Was this just an extreme outlier?

Obviously, this is just one (anec)datapoint.

[mwerd]

Must be fairly recent then...cause 10 years ago it was poor quality care by untrained staff.

https://www.mhtf.org/2017/06/23/quality-of-routine-labor-and...

[Xx25]

Nominal GDP is not the best way to compare countries in these matters. Purchasing power parity might be a better metric as we are talking about service Indians can get in their own country.

[aneeshnl]

Even private providers are affordable.