Commercialization of Medical services - Good or bad?

This being a materialist world cries out for commercialization of Medical services, as people are concerned only about their well being not that of the others. Is it necessary to commercialize medical services or are we better off without it?

For

- Commercialization would offer better resources and better equipments which would enable a hospital to run in a better way.
- Advanced technologies coming into picture meaning more chances of survival.
- There is a huge difference between the facilities provided by the private hospitals and that made available in the government hospitals.
- Commercialization will result in advancement of the healthcare department raising the level by some notch.
- They bring in hygienic way of hospitals which the government hospital fails to show.
- It promotes competition as well as efficiency. It also prevents malpractice.
- It ensures that the doctors are well rewarded for their efforts.

Against

- Medical care is a basic necessity! It should be free or subsidized. Commercializing it will only worsen the condition of people living below poverty line.
- 90% of the population being economically weak cannot afford to pay the expenses of a private hospital. Thus commercialization proves to be a bane for a developing country.
- The benefit given to the poor people is negligible as rich people become the major beneficiaries of commercialization.
- Commercialization for private companies is another way of filling their pockets and generating revenue.
- The worth of one’s life is ignored as they only care about their own betterment.
- It gives rise to corruption as medical officers do tend to sell the medicines of public hospitals in their private clinics.
- Poor are anyways not able to take the benefit of advanced medical technology and hospitals as they are out of their reach.
- It even hurts the middle class as the doctors and hospitals try to make maximum money when they see the person can afford a few more thousands.
- It gets duplicate drugs in the market. Infact many a times drug which are banned in other countries are sold here to make money.

Health services should be provided at affordable prices, business should not be made out of it. Commercialization of health sectors should be limited to some extent. We can not deny that commercialization is required for better facilities and technologies but at the same time we can’t ignore the fact that a large number of people in India are below poverty line and they are not that able to enjoy the luxuries are made available to them by the private hospitals.