We keep on hearing from the members of our developed society that if a person gets admitted in any private hospital then he will come out as popper. Another day one of my friend quipped that the higher level of development in curative health system only increases the cost of death. Another friend of mine quipped that health insurance has lead to the increase in cost of health services. I vividly remember an Incidence of my close relative who recently got diagnosed as cancer patient and got admitted to a 5* private hospital in the capital of India. While walking through hospital it looks that we are in America where medical tourism on boom with patients from Afganistan & Arabian countries. It appeared there is a racket among doctors, business men & agents of the business and the insurance companies. Treatment becomes a secondary issue. primary motive is paisa paisa & paisa. For patients more than 5 doctors of different specialization will visit the patient & each persons visit is charged to the patients bill. Whether those visits were really required or not is a big question. The price of medicine of 5 Rs. in a government hospital is charged as 50 Rs. Where paisa is the main criteria, the ethics should take the front sheet. There is a need for medical audit for all these cases even in private hospitals. If our medical fraternity do not awaken at this juncture, we will damage our medical system in India & may fall in line with US medical system dominated by Insurance companies. Where poor has no role to play. These insurance companies are very efficient while processing the bills of these large hospitals why are they not concerned for National Rural Health insurance. There is a need to regulate their share of business with a predefined proportion/ share of rural & urban insurance.
