Scenario Planning Health Insurance India
- GDP Expenditure on Health care by India in 2011, 3.9% (Lowest in BRICS)
- Health insurance accounts for 5-10% of household expenditure.
- more than 80% of Indians are not covered under any health insurance plan, and only 18% (government funded 12%) of the urban population
- 14% (government funded 13%) of the rural population was covered under any form of health insurance. Source
- India accounted for 4% of GDP in 2013, which is half as much as in China with 5.1%.
- India ranks 184th out of 191 countries in 2012 (187 in 2020).
- costs of poor households as a result of hospitalization accounted for 140% of their annual income in rural areas and 90% in urban areas.
- by 2010, more than 25% of India’s population had access to some form of health insurance.
- Gross direct premium income underwritten by health insurance grew 17.1 per cent y-o-y to Rs 12,443.48 crore (US$ 1.78 billion) in FY20 (up to June 2019).
- During 2000 to 2014, there was a 370 per cent increase in health expenditure.
- The Government of India approved the continuation of National Health Mission with a budget of Rs 31,745 crore (US$ 4.40 billion) under the Union Budget 2019-20
- The Government of India is planning to increase public health spending to 2.5 per cent of the country’s GDP by 2025.
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