Among the many learnings imparted by the coronavirus, perhaps the most relevant for India is the need for health insurance coverage. As the pandemic continues to rage, the dire health scenario has come to the fore: in a country where the average retail healthcare inflation has risen sharply from 4.39% in 2017-18 to 7.14% in 2018-19, as per the Economic Survey 2019, only 4.2 crore people, out of a 130 crore population, have retail health policies. This means that the out-of-pocket spends are a hi ..
