SHI-SHA-SHIA-SHIFA-SHIF: A New Age of Social Healthcare!
The pace towards Universal Health coverage is fastening as the current regime is intending to deliver its share of mandate by building from the MTPIII/Big Four Agenda’s healthcare achievements. While KK regime is steadfast in effecting healthcare changes, the government is yet to dissipate the abounding circulating confusions, confusion founded on numerous questions on the ongoing rapid transition of healthcare financing system from the previous National Health Insurance Fund Act, 1998 to the new Social Health Insurance Act, 2023. Questions such as why the impetuous operationalization of the Social Health Authority. In fact, it is hardly comprehensible that the institution has not been fully established to undertake its mandate as per the SHI Act. Concerns such as why can’t the health authorities attain the same outcomes aimed to be achieved by the new frameworks with the National Health Insurance Fund? Questions such as how what exactly does means testing instrument, ...