-Frontline Kerala is facing a situation where health care costs are leading more and more people, not just low-income families, to financial distress. KERALA is once again drawing attention to itself, this time for a persistent trend of a large number of households being pushed into financial ruin because of the expenses incurred for medical care. Several studies have now found evidence for the many facets of this worrying development in a...
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Putting the ‘universal’ in healthcare -Lant Pritchett & Gulzar Natarajan
-The Indian Express Universal health coverage (UHC) is at the heart of the government's healthcare agenda. The 12th Five Year Plan targets a long-term goal of UHC where "each individual would have assured access to a defined essential range of medicines and treatment at an affordable price, which would be entirely free for a large percentage of the population". But this year's reduced budgetary allocation raises troublesome questions about its ability...
More »Bring NGOs under single, independent regulator: ICAI to govt -Mahua Venkatesh
-Hindustan Times With a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) coming under income tax scanner for not filing returns, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has told the government to bring them under a single and independent regulatory body. The apex body, in a recent note to the government, has said that the setting up of the central regulatory body would make it easier for it to keep a watch on...
More »NDA follows UPA in starving dalits, tribals of funds -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India The Narendra Modi government appears to have continued where the Congress regime left off as far as welfare of Dalits and adivasis is concerned. Plan allocation for schemes under various ministries and departments that serve dalits and adivasis remains much below the targeted levels in the Union Budget for 2015-16. Total Plan allocation in the recently presented Union Budget is Rs 4.65 lakh crore. To ensure that Plan funds...
More »Setting up national agriculture market, a clear warning for APMCs -Enamul Haque
-The Hindu Business Line Economic Survey says Parliament can pass laws to override States' powers to create such a thing The Budget has proposed the setting up of a national agriculture market. Agriculture in the country is a State subject and thus all the States have set up Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) to regulate the marketing of agricultural commodities. Thus, APMCs have been considered an inhibiting factor for establishment of a national...
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