I hope it SAP or Oracle gets this contract.
India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul
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#12This is absolutely fantastic. Even if it doesn't succeed, it would lay the framework for something to build on next, as often happens in India.
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#13The best thing about this article is the moniker Modicare
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#14The beauty of (Indian) democracy is that every 5 years the year before election an innovative world saving scheme that is expensive would be implemented or started.
Those customary bribes are not going to hand themselves out.
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#15> The plan is to roll it out by the end of the year – ahead of elections expected early in 2019. Wow that seems to be a highly ambitious timeline. I hope India manages to setup the program enroll people onto it, but I'm also doubtful whether it can be achieved before the elections.
Having just gone to India everything is tied to the Aadhaar Identification: banks, schools, welfare, etc. It has overall completely replaces a bunch of different identifications into a single centrally located entity. However weird I feel about it being Orwellian I can't say it hasn't been good in terms of simplifying access and providing services since you just need a single identification. So it wouldn't be that hard to just add additional information like how much healthcare was used where and can easily be implemented by end of the year.
But the problem is will all the private sector be able to handle the added load of nearly a billion people accessing the resources...
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#16The beauty of (Indian) democracy is that every 5 years the year before election an innovative world saving scheme that is expensive would be implemented or started.
Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on. This isn't just another election year innovation, this is just another list of innovations that have been added, which also include things like investments in clean energy, and providing rural impoverished citizen with gas to cook (people in rural areas would cook in wood fired stoves that wou…
Isn't this true almost everywhere in the world most of time?
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#17The math doesn't check out. "Each family would get more than $7,200 in annual coverage"; "better health care for 1.3 billion people" and "Modicare is expected to cost the Indian government less than $2 billion annually" seem to be mutually exclusive. There's no reasonable way for health insurance/coverage to be so underutilized that on average only $1-$2 of $7200 would get used.
When they say it'll cost $2b I think that's in addition to what's already being spent.
$2 billion across 1+ billion people is the $1-2 he refers to. The implication is that the additional $7,200 is purely coming from efficiency gains, which he suggests seems improbable.
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#18The beauty of (Indian) democracy is that every 5 years the year before election an innovative world saving scheme that is expensive would be implemented or started.
Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on. This isn't just another election year innovation, this is just another list of innovations that have been added, which also include things like investments in clean energy, and providing rural impoverished citizen with gas to cook (people in rural areas would cook in wood fired stoves that wou…
> Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on
You are drinking ruling party’s a lot of cool aid
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#19The beauty of (Indian) democracy is that every 5 years the year before election an innovative world saving scheme that is expensive would be implemented or started.
That sounds pretty similar to most democracies.
New Zealand now has free tertiary education because of the last election. Sadly it does nothing for my $25,000 of fees I had to pay for my fancy piece of paper. That's almost half a house deposit in some parts of the country.
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