[crvlvr]

Most of India's billion-plus people struggle with a public health care system that is overburdened in cities and virtually nonexistent in villages. On the other hand, private health care is booming, and the country's state-of-the art hospitals and highly skilled doctors even attract patients from countries where health care costs are much higher. The challenge before India is to make such top quality care accessible for the majority of its people...

Read the complete Voice of America Report at: http://www.voanews.c...05-03-voa32.cfm

[Shyam from NJ]

crvlvr, on May 3 2006, 05:48 PM, said:

Most of India's billion-plus people struggle with a public health care system that is overburdened in cities and virtually nonexistent in villages. On the other hand, private health care is booming, and the country's state-of-the art hospitals and highly skilled doctors even attract patients from countries where health care costs are much higher. The challenge before India is to make such top quality care accessible for the majority of its people...

Read the complete Voice of America Report at: http://www.voanews.c...05-03-voa32.cfm

The healthcare is a problem everywhere in the world.  Indeed, one can get very high quality healthcare in the US, but millions of US citizens do not have access to healthcare either.  It is extremely expensive and health insurance is not that affordable either.  To complicate it further, US medical schools are producing large number of poorly qualified doctors whose main motivation in being a doctor is to get rich quick.  Believe it or not, Indian physicians are also some of the best physicians in this country.  

The bottom line is if you are poor you do not get much healthcare, no matter where in the world you live.  Cynicism about other countries, particularly India, is rampant in US.  You will be wasting your time if you pay attention to VOA.