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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Health Service System in India: Is Insurance the Way Forward? -Chhavi Sodhi and Atif Rabbani

Health Service System in India: Is Insurance the Way Forward? -Chhavi Sodhi and Atif Rabbani

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published Published on Aug 30, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 30, 2014
- Economic and Political Weekly


Universalising health coverage is the current goal of the health service system in India. Tax-funded insurance for poor families is the method chosen for attaining this objective. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana was rolled out in 2008 for households below the poverty line, enabling them to access health services in the public and private sectors. However, experience from different countries shows tax-funded insurance systems work well only in settings where public provisioning of healthcare services prevails. State-funded targeted insurance schemes do not seriously mitigate inequitable access to health services in a fundamentally private healthcare delivery market.

Chhavi Sodhi (cs.jnucsmch@gmail.com) is a PhD scholar at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, while Atif Rabbani (csrdian@gmail.com) is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, both at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX, No. 35, August 30, 2014, http://www.epw.in/commentary/health-service-system-india.html


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