Are India’s corporate hospitals still ours?

Are India’s corporate hospitals still ours?

Or is healthcare slowly slipping out of reach for the common man?

Have you ever wondered why hospital bills and insurance premiums in India keep shooting up?
It’s not just inflation. There’s a bigger business game playing out behind the scenes.

What’s really happening?

Some of the world’s biggest money players—especially from the US—are buying up major hospital chains in India.
Healthcare in America costs a fortune, and now the same model is being quietly pushed into India.

A few hard truths:

Big hospitals, foreign control: Large chains like Manipal, CARE, and Aster are now largely owned or controlled by foreign investors.

Insurance–hospital nexus: Companies like Policybazaar are moving towards owning hospitals themselves. They sell you insurance, and then make sure your money flows back into their own hospitals.

Small hospitals disappearing: Affordable neighborhood hospitals are being taken over or pushed out by big chains, making low-cost treatment harder to find.

What does this mean for ordinary people?

Bigger bills: By 2027, hospital costs in India could start resembling US-level expenses.

Healthcare as a business: For these companies, profits matter more than patients. Every bed is calculated for returns, not recovery.