Jaw-dropping statistics. In India: Personal expenditure on health care is 75%,

vs. 12-13% in UK & USA. Public expenditure on health care stagnated

at around 1% of GDP. Catastrophic OOP spending pushed 39–

million people into poverty. 20% of sicknesses go untreated due to lack

of money to see a doctor. There are 5,583 persons per rural hospital

bed (Ministry of Health’s Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI))

India has one of the highest proportions of OOP spending on healthcare in the world. According to the recently released ILO's World Social Security Report 2010-11 , out-of-pocket spend in India was about 75%, putting it in the bracket of such extremely poor countries as Congo, Chad, Burundi, and Guinea. OOP spending is just 13% in the US, 12% in UK and 33% in Brazil.

The private sector accounted for about 59% of all hospital stays in 2004, and for 82% of all outpatient visits. According to the latest National Sample Survey Organisation report on this subject, per person spending on health was Rs 242 by the government and Rs 959 by private means, that is, families. The latter is called out-of-pocket (OOP) spending.

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Out patient consult, medications and diagnostics contribute to a major obstacle to minimise out of pocket spending