Modicare: More business, less care
The PMJAY will damage public healthcare delivery. It mimics the US health system, which is costly with poor outcomes.
On Sunday, September 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) insurance scheme aka 'Modicare'. It was billed, with his characteristic grandiloquence, as the 'world's largest healthcare programme', a reform that will be 'visible from space'. Fact is the government's National (Rural) Health Mission, launched in 2013, covers a much larger population than the 107 million families or 500 million supposed beneficiaries of
