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Better Days Ahead: for Insurance Companies and Corporate Hospitals -Amit Sengupta

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Since being installed in government the BJP's ministers have announced a slew of measures to usher in "better days". True to this pattern, the new government's health minister - Dr.Harsh Vardhan - has articulated a number of priorities in the health sector. None of them come as a surprise as they are true to the BJP's core ideology of further promoting the neoliberal agenda of the previous UPA government.

What Dr.Harsh Vardhan promises now is a continuation of the BJP's vision that it had articulated in its 2014 election manifesto, and previously in its 2009 manifesto. In 2009 the BJP's manifesto had said that ""The BJP will launch a massive programme, through public-private participation, to introduce a ‘Health for All' scheme based on an innovative insurance policy". In its 2014 manifesto the party was less explicit about promoting insurance and public-private partnerships, and had instead couched its intentions with the promise that "the overarching goal of healthcare would be to provide, 'Health Assurance to all Indians...".

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