The Indian government announced in 2018 that India was going to have “the world’s largest healthcare programme.” It soon turned out that the healthcare programme was in fact a health insurance scheme for about 500 million of India’s poorest. The scheme also excludes about 700 million Indians. As of 2019, the central government has agreed to put in about $ 1.14 billion into the scheme.
Here are some of my news breaks about the government’s health insurance scheme and also about health insurance in India in general.
VIDEO
28 Oct 2019
Mental Illness to Finally Be Covered Under Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS Still Excluded
18 Sept 2019
Ayushman Bharat Completes a Year, Centre ‘Recovers’ Rs 1.1 Crore From Fraud
29 July 2019
Confusion as Centre Says It Won’t Be Revising Ayushman Bharat Rates
5 July 2019
Budget 2019: Spearheaded by Ayushman Bharat, Swachh Bharat, Health Gets a Boost
28 June 2019
Ayushman Bharat Claims Touch Rs 3,077 Crore, Gujarat Tops List
2 Feb 2019
Video: How Ayushman Bharat Got a Silent Boost In The Budget
Watch | How Ayushman Bharat Got a Silent Boost in the 2019 Budget
1 Feb 2019
Budget 2019: Ayushman Bharat Gets Rs 6,400 Crore, But to Benefit Private Sector
9 Jan 2019
In the Wake of Ayushman Bharat Come Sops for Private Hospitals
11 Oct 2018
Video: Does India Have the Funds to Run the World’s Largest Healthcare Scheme?
VIDEO
29 June 2018
To Prevent Fraud, Insurance Companies to Pre-Authorise 47% Procedures Under New Scheme
18 June 2018
Despite Pending SC Verdict, Ayushman Bharat Insurance Using Aadhaar as Identifier
12 June 2018
Government ‘Freezes’ Health Insurance Rates, Ignores Private Hospitals’ Protests
7 June 2018
New Health Insurance Scheme Is Unscientific: Private Hospitals to Centre
27 Feb 2018
Coverage for Genetic Diseases Welcomed, but Patient-Groups Await a New Insurance Framework
3 Feb 2018
NITI Aayog Comes to the Rescue As Health Ministry Clueless on ‘World’s Largest Healthcare Programme’
1 Feb 2018
Video: Budget 2018: Decoding the ‘World’s Largest Healthcare Programme’
Budget 2018: Jaitley’s ‘World’s Largest Health Programme’ Rejigs Flailing Old Ones