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Primary Mistake -Soham D Bhaduri

-The Indian Express Budget’s bias toward privately-delivered care undermines universal health coverage Until about four decades ago, specialist healthcare (secondary and tertiary care) was largely a province of public hospitals, and the private sector largely kept itself to the provision of generalist healthcare. This underwent a transformation with the rise of the advanced medical interventions comprising tertiary-care medicine like organ transplantation and open heart surgery. Given these highly-profitable medical advances, the private...

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Making health insurance work -K Srinath Reddy

-The Hindu The National Health Protection Scheme is disconnected from primary care. It also needs to be scaled up It is unusual for a health programme to become the most prominent feature of a Union Budget. The previous government missed the bus when it failed to implement the recommendations of the High-Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage (2011). Yet, those recommendations resonate in the Budget of 2018, with commitment to universal...

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What the US Health Insurance Programme Can Teach India -Rama V Baru

-TheWire.in Why has India chosen the path of expanding Medical Insurance instead of a more comprehensive approach to health? The concern with rising inequities in access to medical care, rising out-of-pocket expenditures and unmet treatment needs have been addressed with yet another targeted Medical Insurance scheme for poor households. The idea of a targeted Medical Insurance is not new. Several southern states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had introduced such schemes many...

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Union Budget 2018: Poor diagnosis, wrong medicine -Sourindra Mohan Ghosh & Imrana Qadeer

-The Indian Express The focus in the Union Budget on tertiary healthcare at the cost of primary and secondary healthcare is flawed. A publicly-financed health insurance scheme is no substitute If the past three Union budgets were any indication, this budget’s approach to the health sector should not have surprised anyone. The prescription in the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 to increase the government’s (Centre and the states together) health expenditure from the...

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Budget 2018: Health gets a super pill, but where's the money for it?

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Healthcare emerged as the buzzword of the 2018-19 Budget, mainly due to the announcement of the Rs 5-lakh healthcare insurance each for 10 crore families, but the sector didn't get mega allocations. For one, the total budget of the health ministry stands at Rs 56,226 crore — an increase of 12% over the previous year. The National Health Policy 2017 indicated that health expenditure would increase...

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