Engage stakeholders: Letter to BS on Modi govt's health protection scheme

Arun Jaitley in his 2018-19 Budget Speech came up with a premium cost of around Rs 1,000-1,200 per family for the proposed health insurance scheme

This refers to “Why Modicare numbers just don't add up and may just remain on paper” (February 6).  While presenting the Union Budget  2003-04, the then Finance Minister Jaswant Singh placed “the interests of our citizens” at the core of his government's economic endeavour and management of the country’s finances and proposed poverty eradication, addressing the lifetime concerns of citizens, covering health, housing, education and employment as one of his “panch priorities”. Through the budgetary provisions, he encouraged the public sector general insurance companies to design an affordable community-based universal health insurance scheme that would entitle eligibility to get reimbursement