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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the world's biggest health insurance scheme, promising free coverage for half a billion of India's poorest citizens ahead of national elections next ...

The per capita scheme expenditure being proposed under the ‘Ayushman Bharat’ programme, dubbed as ‘Modicare’, is much lower than ESIS (Employees’ State Insurance Scheme). According to the National ...

After years of Budget speeches that have had little to say on health and have provoked even less discussion on the subject, it was a surprise to find almost every commentary on Budget 2018 – presented ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aimed at launching the Ayushman Bharat scheme at its earliest, the central government has signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 20 states. But, private hospitals are playing the role of ...

JAIPUR: 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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially announced the Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme popularly referred to as ModiCare in his Independence Day speech. The scheme, which will be ...

New Delhi, Mar 22: Centre’s ambitious ‘Modicare’ health insurance scheme has been approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday. However, no official roll-out date for the same has been announced.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the world's biggest health insurance scheme, promising free coverage for half a billion of India's poorest citizens ahead of national elections next ...