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Making health care affordable
Hindustan Times Ludhiana
|April 23, 2026
The government must expand public health care network as well as insurance coverage
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A new consumption survey by the government has found that, between 2017-18 and 2025, the rise in out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on hospitalisation outstripped overall consumer price index (CPI) inflation and its health inflation component. This points to the worrying possibility of health care becoming unaffordable for hundreds of millions in the country.
While insurance and government cost support schemes such as Ayushman Bharat defray some costs for a section of the population, more than half the population in both urban and rural areas has no such cover to rely on.
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