Health insurance for all by 2032?
Health insurance for all by 2032?
Govt embarks on ambitious 20-year scheme; financial details not clear yet
Porimol Palma: In a major move to reform the country's health sector, the government has taken up an ambitious plan to bring all citizens under national health insurance coverage by 2032.
The plan envisages quality healthcare for all without financial hardship to any, say officials of the Health Economics Unit (HEU) of the health and family welfare ministry.
“The first target will be people below the poverty line, some 48 million now. The government will pay their premiums as subsidy,” HEU Director General Ashadul Islam has said.
For this programme, the HEU has designed the Healthcare Finance Strategy 2012-2032. And the government is now drafting a law.
However, the government...