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Budget
pleases pvt players, irks consumer activists
Richard Feacham, executive director, the US-based Global
Fund for fighting against Aids, TB and Malaria, is unhappy
with the Budget 2003.
Community
health plan is nothing new
Given the fiscal crises in the Indian economy and the
economic slowdown, the expectations from this year’s
budget were very high.
The
budget has promoted private healthcare at the cost of public
sector
Though this is the first time that the budget has declared
some sops to the healthcare sector, it needs to be seen who
is the beneficiary.
There
is no subsidy for a villager under community-based health
insurance
The 2003 budget continues with the same policies of government
for health sector as before, and hence has nothing much in
store to shock or surprise.
Singh
has done a commendable job
This is the first budget of its kind that has recognized
the need of development of social capital and not just economic
capital by giving a boost to the hospital sector and community-based
health insurance scheme.
Budget
draws cheers from medical equipment industry
The Rs 1,800 crore medical equipment market is all agog
with excitement and reveling in jubilation because of the
sops announced by Finance Minister Jaswant Singh in his maiden
budget.
Singh’s
objective of making India a global destination is well addressed
Hon’ble Finance Minister seems to have drafted Budget
2003 with three principal objectives in mind:
A
healing touch from the Finance Minister
On health front, contribution to enhanced national health
is one of the three important principle objectives behind
the proposals of the maiden budget from Mr Jaswant Singh.
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