The ambitious program, dubbed “Modicare,” was unveiled in the federal budget earlier this year and launched at the weekend. It is designed to offer an estimated 100 million “poor and vulnerable” ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to provide health insurance for about half the country would require an estimated 110 billion rupees ($1.7 billion) in federal and ...

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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 ...

Punjab government’s own Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Bima Yojna (BPSSBY) is coming in the way of early implementation of Centre’s ‘Ayushmaan Bharat’ health insurance scheme, also known as ‘Modicare’.