why health care in india , is very poor?
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Explanation:
In 2017-2018, before the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY, Prime Minister’s Health Protection Scheme) was launched, only 12.9% of those in rural and 8.9% in urban areas were covered under any central government insurance scheme, the NSO report said. Only 9.9% of the poorest (belonging to the 1st quintile) in rural areas and 7.5% in urban areas had any government-sponsored health protection, the survey found.
The coverage is low because this survey was done before the launch of PMJAY, since the performance of services and coverage were poor under RSBY, said Shaktivel Selvaraj, director of health economics, financing and policy at the Public Health Foundation of India, a think-tank based in New Delhi. “This was one of the reasons why PMJAY was launched.”
The PMJAY, launched in September 2019, provides health insurance coverage of Rs 5 lakh to 100 million ‘poor and vulnerable’ families identified by the socio-economic caste census (SECC) of 2011.
By December 1, 2019, about 67 million had been given e-cards qualifying them for free treatment, and the treatment of 6.4 million patients had been paid for by PMJAY, data on its website said. “With PMJAY, the bottom 40% of the population now has health insurance.
Explanation:
because there is a distance to health center