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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 254-259 |
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Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India: A comprehensive analytic view of private public partnership model
Sunita Reddy1, Immaculate Mary2
1 Assistant Professor, Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2 Public Health Researcher, Based in Hyderabad, India
Correspondence Address:
Sunita Reddy
Assistant Professor, Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-557X.123264
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The Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance (RACHI) in Andhra Pradesh (AP) has been very popular social insurance scheme with a private public partnership model to deal with the problems of catastrophic medical expenditures at tertiary level care for the poor households. A brief analysis of the RACHI scheme based on officially available data and media reports has been undertaken from a public health perspective to understand the nature and financing of partnership and the lessons it provides. The analysis of the annual budget spent on the surgeries in private hospitals compared to tertiary public hospitals shows that the current scheme is not sustainable and pose huge burden on the state exchequers. The private hospital association's in AP, further acts as pressure groups to increase the budget or threaten to withdraw services. Thus, profits are privatized and losses are socialized. |
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