Misplaced priorities in the Union Health Budget 2015

The Union Budget presented on 28 February 2015 in the Indian parliament has allocated only INR 33,000 crores for health. It allocates more funds for building newer tertiary care hospitals and increases income tax exemptions for buying health insurance. The article explains that model that is being f...

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Autor principal: Bhaumik, Soumyadeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Health Policy
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25949961
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.154624
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description The Union Budget presented on 28 February 2015 in the Indian parliament has allocated only INR 33,000 crores for health. It allocates more funds for building newer tertiary care hospitals and increases income tax exemptions for buying health insurance. The article explains that model that is being followed, as indicated by these measures, will create havoc to the lives of Indians and make them sicker and healthcare costlier. The budget is not in line with the actual priorities of India's health system and nor paves the road map for Universal Health Coverage. The Government of India needs to gets its priorities right.
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spelling pubmed-44086952015-05-06 Misplaced priorities in the Union Health Budget 2015 Bhaumik, Soumyadeep J Family Med Prim Care Health Policy The Union Budget presented on 28 February 2015 in the Indian parliament has allocated only INR 33,000 crores for health. It allocates more funds for building newer tertiary care hospitals and increases income tax exemptions for buying health insurance. The article explains that model that is being followed, as indicated by these measures, will create havoc to the lives of Indians and make them sicker and healthcare costlier. The budget is not in line with the actual priorities of India's health system and nor paves the road map for Universal Health Coverage. The Government of India needs to gets its priorities right. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4408695/ /pubmed/25949961 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.154624 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25949961
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