Personalised letters from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announcements from door-knocking health care workers and lists pinned up at village council offices trumpet the news: India’s vast new health ...

The push for private healthcare now comes cloaked in the language of social movements, warns campaigner Jo Land. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga at a camp to mark the International ...

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 ...

The Modi government's launch of National Protection Health Scheme in the Budget 2018 has drawn immediate comparisons of the program with the former US President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and ...

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 ...

'Modicare' seeks to provide Rs 5 lakh medical coverage per family per year to 10.74 crore poor New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the launch ...

The healthcare cover plan of Rs 5 lakh to 10 crore poor families, known as Ayushman Bharat aka Modicare, is not immune from frauds, NITI Aayog member V K Paul hinted, stating: There is a possibility ...

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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 ...