Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts

29 Nov 2011

"Why are women's health outcomes in India so poor?"

Why are women's health outcomes in India so poor?

Those graphs tell a story.  Sri Lanka is much much better than India on most women's health parameters and on health-care spending.

18 Nov 2011

'Blind Faith In Private Health'

So what lies behind the Republican obsession with privatization and voucherization? Ideology, of course. It’s literally a fundamental article of faith in the G.O.P. that the private sector is always better than the government, and no amount of evidence can shake that credo. 
The same ideology thrives here too.

18 Jul 2010

Cashless Medical Treatment Bleeds Insurers

Medical insurers stop cashless facility.  What took them so long to wake up?
These 18 insurance companies had so far been providing cashless services at over 3,000 hospitals pan-India. But a recent study carried out by the TPAs found that only 350 of them or roughly 11% were consuming more than 80% of the total claims. 

It was also found that customers were overcharged for each hospitalization, irrespective of the treatment, and were left with very little funds for their next treatment.