A ‘Twisted’ Health Scheme Editorial- Economic and Political Weekly Vol – XLVII No. 38, September 22, 2012 State health insurance schemes are being abused to profi t private care providers. The “uterus removal scams” in Chhattisgarh and Bihar that...
Why Publicly-Financed Health Insurance Schemes Are Ineffective in Providing Financial Risk Protection Sakthivel Selvaraj, Anup K Karan EPW Economic & Political Weekly,March 17, 2012 vol xlviI n 60 This paper provides early and robust evidence on the impact of...
India’s Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: Evidence from the Early Experience of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Centre for Policy Research Robert Palacios, Changging Sun This monograph documents the early experience of states, insurance companies,...
Narayanan Devadasan et al Health Research Policy and Systems 2013, 11:29 doi:10.1186/1478-4505-11-29 Abstract Background India’s health expenditure is met mostly by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments at the time of illness. To protect poor families, the...
Arindam Nandi Et al PLoS ONE 8(6): e66296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066296 Abstract The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), which was introduced in 2008 in India, is a social health insurance scheme that aims to improve healthcare access and provide...
