The Health Ministry is preparing to introduce an expanded version of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the government’s flagship health insurance scheme, covering more than 10 crore families or about 50 crore people, reports a daily newspaper.
The plans come a year after the Ministry of Health got the administrative responsibility for RSBY from the Ministry of Labour, which launched it in 2008. The expanded scheme will be the first step towards universal health insurance, though the final modalities and the name of the scheme are still a work in progress.
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