From Health Care to Selling Medical Services
Commercialization of medical assistance means giving up great idea of the people’s health care as a duty of the Russian state to the citizens.
Commercialization of medical assistance means giving up great idea of the people’s health care as a duty of the Russian state to the citizens.
What is important for the state: 100 thousand rubles or a person’s life? It is difficult to find a cheaper way to preserve a person’s life.
Men of wisdom said that people have became so strong that the gods were frightened, took away people’s health and hid it. But where did they hide it? In the mountains, underground, underwater, inside animals, plants. But people found health everywhere. And then the most wise God said: “We have to hide health there, where they will never find it – inside themselves”.
The main reason of the health care crisis is that federal government has actually withdrawn from the responsibility for population health care, shifting it onto regions and municipalities, which do not have sufficient funds for it.