I do believe in Magic™
Do we take Healthcare seriously?
What brand of shirt & trouser do you wear? Allen Solly, Van Heusen, Polo! Each costing you atleast a couple of thousand bucks! How often do you go to restaurants, pubs? Once in a week, twice in week, costing atleast 500 each time.
Irrespective of whether you are a young bachelor, or a young couple recently married & having one or no kids or you are a middle aged person with a high school going child, there’s no denying that the spending pattern of the Indians have changed a lot in the last few years. Everyone spends on br&ed products. The local tailors have long perished at the on-set of major apparel br&s. India is on a move. Everyone earns decent amount of money in the metros. Thousand rupees has no value today in the metros.
Have you ever thought how we react when we talk about the spend on Healthcare. My God!! His fees is 400 bucks. He just made a big hole in my budget. My goodness, this medicine costs 94 Rs. I stopped the Antibiotics because I got well in 2 tablets. You know what - each tablet costed 14 bucks. The Doctors these days just give you expensive medicine!!
Come on, I just want to ask these so called Rising Indian Middle Class. They can spend thousands on a shirt, thousands on a massage, facial, pedicure, hair cut; lakhs on a foreign trip. But when it comes to their own health, it seems they become the same old small town middle class hesitant to spend every penny they have. It is very surprisng to see people cribbing for Doctors fees, medicine cost etc when their vehicles would have guzzled up more petrol in reaching the Doctor & hospital. It’s all in the mind. Service industry is still in shambles because people don’t want to pay unless it becomes a question of life & death. Very few people buy health insurance on their own, citing reasons like their company gives them an insurance coverage already. How small is that corporate provided insurance, nobody cares.
Is it time when we start taking our health as seriously as we purchase our shirt or buy a pizza!! How many of the people over 30 actually go for a full body check up each year? How many have ever paid for it? Everyone is looking for FREE items when it comes to his/her own health. According to a survey, 90% of the young people in Bangalore have undergone health check up only because the health insurance company mandated them to get it done for free. Had it been a paid service, again, very few of these 90% would have been even insured.
Interesting to read such findings but it is time when we start allocating a certain percentage of our income. Even 2-5 Rs. per day to take care of our health coverage for life. People need to understand that health is not a one time down-payment item. It needs to be invested throughout the life time. Why become so stingy when it comes to our own health.
Something glorious is coming live tonight. Since last couple of days, I’ve been working on a new UX / UI for my company HealthcareMagic. Usability is an ever-evolving process, the purpose of putting this new skin on HCM is to create more “call-to-action” factor and simplicity.
Launch is on the final stages right now, and probably exactly with the start of 2010, right on mid night. I will make it live!
A perfect way to kick-off the new year!
- Get Instant Answer to your Questions by Live Chat with Doctors
- No more waiting for Emails, get answer Right NOW!
- Your money will be refunded if you are not satisfied
Idea Overflow…
Well… Ideas, by themselves, are worthless. Unless there is proper execution, ideas will go nowhere. To execute, you need focus and persistence. Unwavering focus on your ultimate goal.
While some of the aspiring entrepreneurs wither away trying to find that ‘perfect idea’, several others suffer from a different syndrome - one that can be attributed to ‘too many ideas’. These idea whores cant stop coming up with new business ideas. They tend to get so overwhelmed with all the new ideas, that the net result is that they cant focus on implementing any single one of them. As soon as they start implementing one idea, their mind wavers to the ‘next big thing’. At the end of the day, they’ve not properly explored a single idea.
I’ll admit - I’ve succumbed to this wavering myself, a couple of times.
Professionally & personally HCM is my first enterprepreneurial experience, I’ve learnt one very valuable lesson - based on my discussions with my partners who are successful entrepreneurs and several other successful entrepreneurs and businessmen.
Entrepreneurship takes discipline and persistence. Everyone gets ideas. Ideas are cheap and easy - executing on a particular idea is the difficult part.
Apart, A recommended reading on start-up life by Paul Graham here.
What do you think ? Have you suffered from the ‘Idea Overflow’ syndrome at any point?…Let me know?
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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Meet Joe - Meet HealthcareMagic.com
Meet Joe… Story of a man who discovers a new way to take care of his health worries, simply by going online on HealthcareMagic and chatting with a Doctor. Joe finds peace of mind and now he can resolve his health queries talking to Doctors. 24x7, anytime, any day. His problems related to meeting a doctor over and over got solved.
