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India's healthcare should not go down the dangerous US model path -Soham D Bhaduri

-TheWire.in

In a recent NITI Aayog report, essential areas like population health and primary healthcare receive only ritualistic treatment.

The NITI Aayog’s recently published report titled ‘Health System for a New India: Building Blocks – Potential Pathways to Reform‘ is remarkable in a number of ways. It has dared to challenge the entrenched healthcare paradigm and move beyond the traditional, clichéd discourse on healthcare reform that has hitherto characterised our plan and policy documents.

A realistic framework for achieving universal healthcare has been envisaged, along with a number of laudable measures – including harmonisation of the myriad, fragmented health schemes, which has been a pressing demand of activists; a standard benefits package; abolition of informality in healthcare provision; and other reforms to step up quality and efficiency.

The report, however, does not lay out an all-encompassing reform agenda for Indian healthcare in its entirety, focusing rather specifically on health financing and service delivery reforms to bring about health system transformation. Essential areas like population health and primary healthcare receive only ritualistic treatment.

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