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      Health System in Transition in India: Journey from State Provisioning to Privatization

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            This paper highlights how privatization in healthcare is being promoted and its further growth facilitated through the adoption of neoliberal policies in India. The approach to financing healthcare has been shifting from public provisioning to tax-funded health insurance merely to achieve health coverage. The idea of the strategic purchasing of care from private providers promoted through insurance seems likely to aggravate the crisis in access and healthcare delivery. Such a crisis will escalate costs and promote concentration and monopolies in the healthcare market. Under the recently promoted neoliberal policy, India is compromising the goal of comprehensive provision of public health services, which is essential for creating a healthier society.

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            Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50005553
            Journal ID (jcode): worlrevipoliecon
            Title: World Review of Political Economy
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN: 2042-891X
            ISSN: 2042-8928
            Publication date (Print): 1 December 2020
            Volume: 11
            Issue: 4 ( doiID: 10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.issue-4 )
            Pages: 506-532
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            Publisher ID: worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0506
            DOI: 10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0506
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Political economics
            Keywords: privatization,health insurance,neoliberalism in health,health system transition

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