Modi govt puts brakes on India's universal health plan

[JI7]

<Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for a drastic cutback of an ambitious health care plan after cost estimates came in at $18.5 billion over five years, several government sources said, delaying a promise made in his election manifesto.

Modi has had to make difficult choices to boost economic growth - his government's first full annual budget, announced last month, ramped up infrastructure spending, leaving less federal funding immediately available for social sectors.

Currently only 17 percent of India's population has some form of health insurance.>

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/india-health-idINKBN0MM2UT20150327

[Diclotican]

1. JI7

JI7

Horrible - it should be a nutural way, to have acess to universal health care in my opinion

Diclotican

[geek tragedy]

2. $18/person for universal health and they don't have the money?

I'm sure the hordes of billionaires they have over there could foot the bill . . .

[Doctor_J]

3. they already have something

My neighbor is an India emigre and when he goes to visit his parents he can go to the doctor for a couple bucks and get medicine for another couple. this article doesn't make sense from what I know, or at least is incomplete.

[JI7]

4. indians living abroad have more money

Than most indians in India.