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 ...

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 ...

After presenting the Budget 2018, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gave a name to government’s ambitious healthcare scheme Ayushmann Bharat: Modicare. He said that nobody knew whether Obamacare was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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States will likely have to pick up a part of expenditure for the Modi government's ambitious National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), billed as the world’s largest state-funded health insurance ...

India’s healthcare plan Modicare faces slow start Why the ambitious Indian healthcare scheme is failing some of the poor. Read more By Scott Heidler 16 May 2019 Add Al Jazeera on Google ...

Modicare, the world’s biggest health scheme, promises health cover worth 500,000 rupees ($6,900) to every poor family to treat serious ailments ...