Health services are the basic necessity for a person. Private companies have made the health services quite costly for ordinary individuals. Do the advantages of private health care outweigh its disadvantages?

That living standard of people is enhancing day by day is attributable to the increase concern about well-being issues, as well as

health

care

services. While privately-owned companies have made heath services quite expensively that not everyone can afford, I strongly believe that

this

disadvantage is overshadowed by its advantage which is sharing responsibilities with state-owned

health

care

institutions in taking

care

of the public’s

health

.

To begin

with, private

health

the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession

healthcare

care

companies usually have higher costs than public ones that only the affluent can manage to pay for. It is because those services are run by profit-making companies and not subsidized by the government, and sometimes unnecessary tests. To compete with the public hospitals, private clinics must treat their patients with modern medical equipments and professional doctors.

This

trend

also

lead to a

further

gap between the rich and the poor in a country.

Nevertheless

, it is undeniable that private hospitals reduce the pressure on the public

health

care

system in term of overload of patients. The medical structure does not keep up with the rapid increase of population, so the situation of overcrowding is very common in public hospitals. The private hospitals alleviate

this

situation and

also

help more patients to be treated.

Moreover

, patients who choose private healthcare services not only avoid

this

condition, but

also

experience shorter waiting time for examinations and operations, and more thorough

care

. In conclusion, while the private healthcare system has some inevitable drawbacks, I strongly believe that they are negligible in comparison with its benefits of reducing the pressure on the public medical system hospitals.