The
Modi government's claim of ushering in the largest healthcare
scheme in the world is completely vacuous. The chosen
method of enlarging healthcare access to the poor is
wrong both because of the route chosen (the insurance
route which benefits insurance companies more than it
benefits the patients) as well as because of the ridiculously
paltry financial provision.
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This article was originally published in The People's
Democracy on
September 30, 2018. |