India is considered the leading country promoting medical tourism-and now it is moving into a new area of medical outsourcing,” where subcontractors provide services to the overburdened medical care systems in western countries.
India’s National Health Policy declares that treatment of foreign patients is legally an “export” and deemed “eligible for all fiscal incentives extended to export earnings.” Government and private sector studies in India estim…

If administered properly, healthcare insurance sector has a huge potential in India and it can be leveraged to realize the dream to provide ‘health for all’. I wonder if the government can create a corpus to fund the insurance premium to be paid on behalf of the lower income groups and those below poverty line. The state governments have to do this and each state government can initiate a fund with a nominal contribution of some Rs. 50 crores and invite the industrial uni…