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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India on Sunday launched the world’s biggest health insurance scheme which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would cover some 500 million poor people. The programme, dubbed “Modicare”, promises health ...

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

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 ...

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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PM Modi is making a new health-care program a key plank of his platform for elections next year. Personalized letters from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announcements from door-knocking health-care ...