Comments on: State Health Care? Choice Is Healthy Too http://www.akashkapur.com/2009/09/state-health-care-choice-is-healthy-too/ Akash Kapur's website Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:12:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Hitendra http://www.akashkapur.com/2009/09/state-health-care-choice-is-healthy-too/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Hitendra Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:42:01 +0000 http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=541#comment-78 Does such airticles make any sense .Mr.Kapur are you born to cry your whole life about your own country, even after getting the best education people can just dream of ? I would appreciate if we discuss not about what happened decades back during cold war era and blame the system .Rather find solution how people can have a better life . How private public patnership can work ? Does we need regulatory to keep a eye on private player so the common man is not exploited? Please donot waste your knowledge ,experience and energy in fruitless effort . Does such airticles make any sense .Mr.Kapur are you born to cry your whole life about your own country, even after getting the best education people can just dream of ?

I would appreciate if we discuss not about what happened decades back during cold war era and blame the system .Rather find solution how people can have a better life .
How private public patnership can work ?
Does we need regulatory to keep a eye on private player so the common man is not exploited?

Please donot waste your knowledge ,experience and energy in fruitless effort .

]]> By: Vivek ji http://www.akashkapur.com/2009/09/state-health-care-choice-is-healthy-too/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Vivek ji Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:29:59 +0000 http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=541#comment-76 Article touches the ground of reality, Great Article touches the ground of reality, Great

]]> By: Sharan http://www.akashkapur.com/2009/09/state-health-care-choice-is-healthy-too/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Sharan Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:31:25 +0000 http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=541#comment-27 It's quite easy for you, a member of the minuscule middle class, to say government is the problem and not the solution. Maybe you should also consider that the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US and India is healthcare. Maybe you should also consider that 80% of healthcare expenses are "out of pocket" expenses, and that private healthcare costs 8 times that of govt. care. Or can you tell the 200 million people without access to drinking water and the half of our country's malnourished women and children that govt is the problem? The private sector has its place in the economy, but it's naive to believe government is innately evil. The 80% of India that get by on less than $2 a day, need a saviour and enabler - that role can only be fulfilled by the government, not the private sector. And it would be advisable for you to stop blaming our legendary founding-father Pandit Nehru for India's economic travails. If you didn't already know, Nehru instituted mixed-economic policies in India and pro-industry policies. India after independence was a feeble, dilapidated, and divided country that needed government intervention. India had no infrastructure to speak of, nor did we have any of the necessary foundation (education) to implement entirely free-market policies. He implemented policies that were right for that moment - an astute combination of government and private enterprises. Pandit Nehru strongly believed in industrialization and in the role of science of technology in the economy. The use of English in government, the IIT's, ISRO, and Atomic Research Center were all pushed and initiated by Nehru. Maybe after you give up 50 years of your life for India and her freedom like Pandit Nehru, spending 10 of those years in jail, you can so callously demean and degrade our founding father. It’s quite easy for you, a member of the minuscule middle class, to say government is the problem and not the solution. Maybe you should also consider that the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US and India is healthcare. Maybe you should also consider that 80% of healthcare expenses are “out of pocket” expenses, and that private healthcare costs 8 times that of govt. care. Or can you tell the 200 million people without access to drinking water and the half of our country’s malnourished women and children that govt is the problem? The private sector has its place in the economy, but it’s naive to believe government is innately evil. The 80% of India that get by on less than $2 a day, need a saviour and enabler – that role can only be fulfilled by the government, not the private sector.

And it would be advisable for you to stop blaming our legendary founding-father Pandit Nehru for India’s economic travails. If you didn’t already know, Nehru instituted mixed-economic policies in India and pro-industry policies. India after independence was a feeble, dilapidated, and divided country that needed government intervention. India had no infrastructure to speak of, nor did we have any of the necessary foundation (education) to implement entirely free-market policies. He implemented policies that were right for that moment – an astute combination of government and private enterprises. Pandit Nehru strongly believed in industrialization and in the role of science of technology in the economy. The use of English in government, the IIT’s, ISRO, and Atomic Research Center were all pushed and initiated by Nehru. Maybe after you give up 50 years of your life for India and her freedom like Pandit Nehru, spending 10 of those years in jail, you can so callously demean and degrade our founding father.

]]>