Low health care expenditure to impact risk-pooling model: NITI Aayog

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The country’s low expenditure on public health care (estimated to be 0.9-1.1 per cent of GDP) is a big constraint in growing the subsidised risk pooling model in health care. 

This is particularly true for the poor and sick and those who need them the most, a report by NITI Aayog, released on Monday, said.

The current Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), commonly known as Ayushman Bharat, is an example of a subsidised risk pooling model in the health care sector.

The report titled, ‘Health Systems for a New India: Building Blocks – Potential Pathways to Reforms’ that was released by NITI