India doesn't get it. Defending the world from terrorism is 1000x more important then basic health insurance. How can health insurance defend the people against suicide bombers? The only thing that can defend people from suicide bombers is the 1.5 Trillion dollar F-35, the greatest war plane ever made.
India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care
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#122The govt. of Andhra Pradesh (a state in India) has pioneered a state backed insurance program several years ago with reasonable success ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarogyasri ). The problem however with these programs is that corruption within the healthcare industry is still endemic and doctors create fake diagnoses and perform unnecessary surgeries on patients to get their reimbursements from Aarogya-sri. If th…
Total budget for this scheme is 2000 Crore INR (311.6 million USD) which comes to be less 0.6232 USD/ 40 Inr. What kind of healthcare are people going to get from this free health thingy? I know that medicines/drugs are cheaper here in India but not that cheap.
Re: India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care
#123The govt. of Andhra Pradesh (a state in India) has pioneered a state backed insurance program several years ago with reasonable success ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarogyasri ). The problem however with these programs is that corruption within the healthcare industry is still endemic and doctors create fake diagnoses and perform unnecessary surgeries on patients to get their reimbursements from Aarogya-sri. If th…
Total budget for this scheme is 2000 Crore INR (311.6 million USD) which comes to be less 0.6232 USD/ 40 Inr. What kind of healthcare are people going to get from this free health thingy? I know that medicines/drugs are cheaper here in India but not that cheap.
There is a very active discussion going currently that the cost of the program could be way higher. Like 10x - 20x higher.
Eventually the numbers will be clear.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely Aarogyasri in AP saved millions of Lives. Current administration tried to remove the program since its not introduced by them and can't take credit for. So they are trying to kill it slowly (By removing people from program, cutting benefits etc). I wonder what will happen to this Free Health insurance program when central government changes next time.
The current state government is pro business and don’t have any money to implement or continue any past programs. Whatever money they have is spent on pet projects and making themselves rich. The previous government even though was corrupt at least did something for the poor. I personally witnessed AROGYASHRI being used by the poor and the amount of stability it bought to their daily lives. I also agree that there wa…
Well, this is the case with every state with possible exception of Delhi.
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#125I might be sounding negative, but the current PM is known to be someone who just promises a million things. This is just a prop for 2019 because he has absolutely destroyed the economy and the RBI.
I seriously doubt if this will actually be implemented ever. This is the magic of India, They won't deny insurance, but when the people will go to create insurance, there will be some or the other issue with the system and they won't be able to apply for it.
Also the media is a sycophant of the govt so nobody will question it and on the exterior, it'll be shown that they did provide insurance although nobody got anything.
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#127India doesn't get it. Defending the world from terrorism is 1000x more important then basic health insurance. How can health insurance defend the people against suicide bombers? The only thing that can defend people from suicide bombers is the 1.5 Trillion dollar F-35, the greatest war plane ever made.
Number of people dying in india due to health is ~1000x more than ones killed in terrorism.
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#128Re: India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care
#129The govt. of Andhra Pradesh (a state in India) has pioneered a state backed insurance program several years ago with reasonable success ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarogyasri ). The problem however with these programs is that corruption within the healthcare industry is still endemic and doctors create fake diagnoses and perform unnecessary surgeries on patients to get their reimbursements from Aarogya-sri. If th…
My babai is one of the beneficiaries of that said program. While I am thankful for that, The scale of corruption in govt insurance program is massive.
The card was given to white ration card holders(BPL). But many undeserving people also hold the white ration card.
They could also put those funds in developing govt health care centers, which are spread across the state and are in very abysmal state.
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#130This is a sham. There is no specific allocation for the same in the budget. State Governments have been instituting insurance cover for population for ages and it is available around the same quantum. Generally insurance in India like any other country has the effect of artificially inflating healthcare cost. India would do well to spend money on improving public health infrastructure instead.