But the article is correct.
In India healthcare is not a free, universal human right but many times a commodity to be purchased and arranged from capitalist-model clinics, hospitals and insurance companies. About the third thing, many people don't have money in a month to eat, let alone pay some insurance company. There are many people who remain blind and die of cancers and non-organ transplants not because there is no cure but because they don't have the money to pay for the treatment. And what does the government do ? Spend money on building unnecessary massive statues and parliament buildings and purchase the Indian equivalents of Air Force Ones and also arrange the logistics to collect funds to build a religious structure.
About India being a democracy, it is not. Our political process just allows for the melodrama of regular elections which are not designed to bring progressive change, not to allow a citizen to participate in the process, but to allow power-minded people to get to the top and enact or continue unscientific laws. For example, which political leader or group in India should accept responsibility for suicide of 300,000+ Indian farmers who committed suicide just in the ten year period of 1995 and 2015 because of socio-economic reasons ? Real democracy won't have allowed this tragedy to happen because that real democracy would not have the sham of five-yearly elections and sham tolerance of multiple political parties. Real democracy will have been a partyless system where every citizen will have been allowed to have his or her say in political, social and economic affairs from neighborhood level to national level. A direct democracy guided by leftist thought. Like what existed in Libya until 2011 and what generally exists in Venezuela now.
