EAC-PM discusses roll-out of national health care scheme
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) on Monday discussed possible modalities for implementing the world’s largest health protection scheme announced in the Union Budget, said an official release. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his Budget Speech on February 1, had announced that the government would launch a flagship ‘National Health Protection Scheme’ to cover over 100 million households (about 500 million people) by providing annual coverage of up to ~500,000 per family for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation. “Keeping in view the national health scheme announced by the government in the Budget for the year 2018-19 presented in Parliament on February 1, 2018, the EAC-PM discussed the possible modalities of implementing the scheme,” the release said. The mega scheme is likely to be launched either on August 15 or October 2.