Dear brother, we dont want everything free but we want medicine to be affordable, especially those with life long issues who take medicine regularly. Surgeries were almost free before too, but only in govt hospitals. Instead of improving quality of govt hospitals, they provided insurance and now the private hospitals earn more while govt hospitals even further deteriorated.
Now due to health card giving free surgeries in private hospitals, no one goes for surgeries in govt hospitals, further destroying the govt hospitals and degrading their quality. Surgeries as i said are once in a lifetime thing for most people while regular medicine are common and if u increase price of regular medicine 4x while give free surgery, then overall its a burden.