“The Democrats are pushing for universal healthcare [in the US] while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their system is going broke and not working,” he tweeted. Every other developed country has a universal healthcare system - and in an 11-country study published by the USbased think-tank The Commonwealth Fund last summer, the United States came dead last in terms of safety, affordability and efficiency. There really is no controversy: Universal healthcare is better. “The government is progressing towards a goal of universal health coverage.” People are already calling it “Modicare” (after Prime Minister Narendra Modi), and it does bear more than a passing resemblance to Obamacare. All that said, the direction is clear, and maybe in a couple of decades India will have a universal health service like the NHS.

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2018 01:59 UTC