Is India a global superpower?

Poor healthcare prevents India from being a global superpower

Question: Is India a global superpower?
Position‹2 of 3›: No, India has too many domestic issues to be a global superpower
Argument‹2 of 6›: Poor healthcare prevents India from being a global superpower

India's healthcare system has performed high-quality surgeries and made advancements to anatomical science, but a majority of its population does not have easy access to appropriate medical care.

The argument

India's healthcare system is broad, and the argument's point is that the breadth is itself the problem: it ranges from top doctors and scientists performing successful surgeries to the lack of advanced and affordable medical care in the impoverished, rural parts of the country. A country can hold both at once, and India does — which is why its medical achievements do not settle the question of its standing. The distribution is geographic. Urban areas in southern India have the country's best doctors and its largest concentration of them. In remote areas, such as the northern Himalayan region, most citizens do not have close access to medical care at all. Proximity is decisive in a way that national capacity is not: care that exists but cannot be reached in time is, for the person who needs it, care that does not exist. The gap extends to knowledge as well as treatment. Sexual education is widely untaught across India, especially to females. Many young women become pregnant unknowingly because they have no knowledge of reproductive health, which contributes to the country's problem of overpopulation — so the shortfall compounds, adding to the population the system is already failing to serve. The scale of that shortfall is what makes it a national rather than a local matter. A majority of people in rural India have no available healthcare close to their home or place of employment. Medical facilities in poor areas are usually underfunded and lack basic resources such as doctors, clean water, beds, and electricity. These are not gaps in advanced provision but absences of the conditions under which any provision is possible. Even though India has made advancements to medical science, most of the country still lacks access to high-quality care. A state that cannot deliver basic care to the majority of its own citizens is, on this argument, too burdened by domestic issues to be a global superpower.

Premises

[P1]India's healthcare is deeply unequal: urban southern areas have top doctors while remote regions like the northern Himalayas leave most citizens without close access to care. [P2] Rural facilities are underfunded and lack doctors, clean water, beds, and electricity, and limited sexual education contributes to unplanned pregnancies and overpopulation. [C] Therefore, poor and unequal healthcare is a domestic issue that prevents India from being a global superpower.

Counter-arguments

Since India is known globally for its advanced healthcare system, it should be considered a global superpower. Their scientists and doctors research common chronic illnesses that citizens in the country have. The more advancements India makes in medicine, the more it will be able to provide a higher quality of life for people.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P4] India is known globally for its top healthcare.