This article provides some background. Dr. Devi Shetty has a new model of health care delivery. But you'll understand it only if you listen to the interview.
So essentially I am sitting here and telling the parents, ok, your child has a hole in the heart and it costs sixty thousand rupees which they don't have. So essentially I'm putting a price tag on human life. And that is what we do in all the developing countries. Our only job is putting a price tag on human life. That is unacceptable. So we have to come up with a solution. We can't let people die. I strongly believe India will become the first country in the world to disassociate health care from your bank balance.
