The Union Cabinet approved on Wednesday the government’s ambitious “Modicare” health insurance that targets nearly 11 crore poor families and will be a portable scheme which can be availed of anywhere ...

Last week the Union cabinet signed off on Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM), the ambitious social welfare programme announced in the Union budget for 2018-19. It set the ...

The Modi government's launch of National Protection Health Scheme in the Budget 2018 has drawn immediate comparisons of the program with the former US President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and ...

The nationwide launch is expected in September end. The ambitious scheme aims to provide a coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family annually for over 10 crore poor families of the country. Reports say the ...

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 ...

Modicare can transform not just the lives of the poor, but also improve the behaviour of the insurance and healthcare sectors It is not often that Indian residents want to on-board a scheme for Bharat ...

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 Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1, saw the unveiling of a mega healthcare project that is being touted as the world’s largest such scheme, in both extent, and ...

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 ...