In the Union Budget 2018-19, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that India will have the world's largest healthcare programme for half a billion of its poorest citizens. He went on to lay out ...

Narendra Modi says bottom 40% of population will be covered under flagship programme India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has launched the world’s biggest health insurance scheme, promising free ...

The central government's plan to launch the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme - Ayushman Bharat, popularly referred to as "Modicare" is already facing obstacles. While the ...

It is not often that Indian residents want to on-board a scheme for Bharat. If the Rs 5 lakh sum insured under Modicare for 500 million Indian poor reaches its potential, middle India will clamour to ...

New Delhi: Hundred million families coming under the National Health Protection Mission (NHPM) could lure more investments into private healthcare market and drive down cost of treatment at private ...

The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1, saw the unveiling of a mega healthcare project that is being touted as the world’s largest such scheme, in both extent, and ...

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The Modi health care scheme announced in the Union budget this year is quite similar to the one introduced in Rajasthan in December 2015, says Kali Charan Saraf, Rajasthan's Minister of Health. Under ...