Law – Healthcare Institutions
The government itself must provide well equipped and well staffed hospitals that compete with private hospitals. They should improve their existing government hospitals or outsource their government facilities to professional sincere and competent private hospital agencies and collected a small royalty from them for the use of government facilities. One reason for poor facilities at government health care institutions is lack of funding. The government should allocate 6.5% of the budget towards health care. Once funding is allocated at 6.5% of the budget, the only way to shake a government hospital facility out of its complacency is to ensure that government hospitals compete for funding with private hospitals. This can be done by a system of subsidised vouchers. Families upto an income limit of Rs 1,50,000 must be provided 100% voucher subsidies for a maximum hospital fees of Rs 500,000 per incident. Families with an income above Rs 1,50,000 a...