{"id":28781,"date":"2018-10-24T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28781"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:19:10","slug":"new-health-scheme-flawed-ima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-health-scheme-flawed-ima\/","title":{"rendered":"New health scheme flawed: IMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/conceptual-deficits-operational-flaws-in-nhps-doctors-body\/article24186929.ece\">New health scheme flawed: IMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Indian Medical Association has sought the review of National Health Protection Scheme- Ayushman Bharat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The Indian Medical Association said that the National Health Protection Scheme has conceptual deficits and operational flaws.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns raised by Indian Medical Association:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Rates quoted by the government for various procedures are inadequate and impractical.<\/li>\n<li>Rate quota do not cover approx. 30% of the cost of the procedure.<\/li>\n<li>Cost cutting will led to serious compromise of patient safety and exposing them to danger.<\/li>\n<li>IMA pointed out that the policy change will end up strengthening the insurance business.<\/li>\n<li>The government will lose around \u20b9400 crore to private health insurance companies who will manage the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>IMA pointed out that the NHPS fails to create any new national asset.<\/li>\n<li>IMA said if same money invested in public hospitals would have brought secondary and tertiary care closer to poor in government hospitals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Demand of Indian medical Association<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The IMA demanded that the costing undertaken should be made transparent and be put in public domain.<\/li>\n<li>District hospital should be allocated with 2 crore for better infrastructure and healthcare facility.<\/li>\n<li>IMA has suggested the government that NHPS should be modelled as healthcare purchase directly from the provider hospitals removing the insurance companies and third party administrators.<\/li>\n<li>These intermediaries take off 40% of the budgeted money and are breeders of corruption and unethical practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Currently, Twenty States have signed MoUs with the Union Health Ministry to implement the government national health protection mission.<\/li>\n<li>The mission aiming to provide a cover of \u20b95 lakh per family annually to ten crore vulnerable families.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New health scheme flawed: IMA News: The Indian Medical Association has sought the review of National Health Protection Scheme- Ayushman Bharat. Important Facts: The Indian Medical Association said that the National Health Protection Scheme has conceptual deficits and operational flaws. Concerns raised by Indian Medical Association: \u00a0Rates quoted by the government for various procedures are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-health-scheme-flawed-ima\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New health scheme flawed: IMA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704736339},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}