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Financial Protection through the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS): How Much Can it Cover?
28/02/2018
[Co-authored with Arpita Chakraborty and Jay Dev Dubey]
Following the Union Budget 2018, the NITI Aayog announced that the fiscal burden on the Government for the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) is likely to be around 10-12 thousand crores. This is based on the premise …
The National Health Protection Scheme in the Union Budget 2018: Is it in the Right Direction?
03/02/2018
The National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), described by the Finance Minister (FM) as ‘the largest Government funded health care programme in the world’, was a centre piece of the 2018-19 Union Budget. This is, however, not a new announcement. The NHPS was announced by the FM in his …
[Co-authored with Manya Nayar]
The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 (Clinical Establishments Act) is facing resistance from the medical fraternity. The Indian Medical Association claims that the law will cause an increase in the cost of treatment and adversely affect small …
[Co-authored with Shubho Roy]
India has approximately 5.2 million medical negligence cases annually. A study for Mumbai showed that medico-legal cases, in courts, against doctors rose from 910 in the period from 1998 and 2006, to 150-200 cases every year. The responsibility to regulate the …
[Co-authored with Shubho Roy]
In his budget speech of 2017, the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley announced that the government has prepared an action plan to eliminate two vector-borne diseases by the end of this year (para. 64):
"Poverty is usually associated with poor …