Post by Arjun Kumar
Director, IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute | research @impriindia #IMPRI
The Architectural Re-engineering Of Indian Healthcare: Analyzing The Blueprint, Promise, And Impact Of Pradhan Mantri-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar For decades, the standard critique of the Indian public health sector was its single-minded obsession with “demand-side” adjustments. Whenever a public health crisis emerged, the policy reflex was to expand beneficiary lists, float insurance scripts, or tinker with targeted welfare criteria. While these demand-side interventions were vital buffers, they frequently hit a hard structural wall: an acute shortage of supply-side infrastructure....