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> With some money and growth they could theoretically be offered to everyone in India.

Do you have any proof that charity is close-to-infinitely scalable and dependable to a point that a society can reasonably depend on it for something as basic a need as healthcare?

Or is it that you think that funnelling Government money through a for-profit company to treat people will somehow reduce costs?

While it's great that India has managed to get surgeries down to the sub-$1000 mark in many cases, the fact of the matter is that the Indian poor literally live on about a dollar a day, if not less - for an entire family.




I didn't made any argument about public vs private healthcare FINANCING. I simple said they need more money.

And i said india is good at low cost healthcare DELIVERY.

Financing and delivery are seperate parts and shouldn't be mixed thogheter in such dicsuossions.




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