When we treat health care as a retail commodity,
Getting sick drains a family's capital.
True health system resilience treats care as economic protection.
Take Bangladesh, for example.
They are facing a massive surge in chronic conditions that require constant lifelong management.
Non-communicable diseases like diabetes are now responsible for over 60% of all deaths.
The public system can't keep up.
With only 0.58 skilled medical staff per thousand people.
This severe shortage forces the population to turn to the private sector
that now holds 60% of total bed capacity.
This leaves individuals paying for profit-driven treatments directly on their own.
That mechanism is called out-of-pocket expenditure.
In Bangladesh, over 68% of all health spending is funded this way.
Draining personal finances for episodic care.
For chronic illnesses, these uncoordinated, lifelong payments act exactly like a regressive tax.
Instead of building economic resilience, this system systematically extracts wealth from the labor force.
Because true health system resilience doesn't just treat the sick.
It functions as the foundation of economic infrastructure.
Human in purpose. Systemic in method.
Protective in outcome.