Is Quality in Healthcare, Sustainable in Developing Economies?

The cost of healthcare is a big burden in most of developing countries like India where the out of pocket medical expenditure is too high. It is reported that millions of population get pushed below poverty line on account of un-expected healthcare expenditure. Major share of healthcare is provided by private sector. There is general perception that private sector is expensive. In-spite of this, it's an irony that majority of private healthcare sector is still struggling to achieves profitable EBIDTA. By citing specific scenario from India, the paper makes the case, which will generally be the same for most of developing nations.