Universal healthcare - our appoach
Pirate Praveen
Thu 30 Jul 2015 1:04PM
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Free quality public services are vital to fight poverty and inequality by putting virtual money in people’s pockets.
Every year, health payments push 6 crore Indians below poverty line.
A good article to start working on our healthcare policy.
https://www.oxfamindia.org/blog/1061/healthcare-all-india:-when,-how,-and-why-rsby?
Pirate Vik · Thu 30 Jul 2015 2:11PM
Free services also take away to a certain extent the financial incentives that exist which encourage doctors to prescribe treatments (that are often not in the patients interest or required at all).