Title: India's health minister commits government to improving healthcare access
Abstract: India’s new health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has announced that the government’s top priority will be to provide health insurance coverage for everyone through a national policy. Vardhan took up the post of health minister on 27 May.
Vardhan said, “The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana [RSBY; the national health insurance scheme] of the ministry of labour is working fine in some states but its reach is limited to BPL [below poverty line] families. I plan to rope in all economic groups and make the health ministry a sort of regulatory body …
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-06-11
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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