In major cities private medical care is available, but expensive.
If they seek private care, the cost is often beyond their means.
Those patients did not or could not elect private care.
I understand parents who provide private care for their children.
Social services departments take over responsibility for private care next week.
Some elderly people entering private care do so using there own financial resources.
The most difficult issue is providing for the costs of private medical care in retirement.
Still, he did not understand that his son's military insurance policy covered private care.
However, for the most part the government does not directly regulate the costs of private medical care.
Five years later, when my father was too broke to pay for private care, I visited him in the state mental institution.