Transplantation of healthcare financing policy from the United Kingdom to India

The staggering statistics in health conditions of India demand quick actions, and thus it is advised to come up with a solution which takes less time as compared to a complete design of a new system. This paper starts with background study of UK, Netherlands and Indian health care financing models, followed by an analysis ofeasibility of transplantation of financing policies from the UK to India. It is proved from literature survey that UK and Netherlands has one of the best financing models. Though Netherlands' model is also considered; but due toeconomic incompatibility of model in India, and UK's similar legislation background with India, UK's health care system is chosen to be analyzed further as a donor country in this case. A thorough study through Hofstede's cultural dimensions (Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, 2010),family of nations, and actors pulling-in and goodness of fit perspectives study end with strategies of implementation to provide some recommendations for successful transplantation. The results of transplantation can be interpreted as "great example" (Rose, 1993) if the strategies of implementation are clearly kept in mind.