We motivate this short piece by first reminding readers of India’s poor health outcomes and related vulnerability of her people to financial distress. The end-goal of universal health care is a multi-year journey, which will require more resources dedicated towards health. But there are intermediate destinations along possible transition paths that increase the efficiency of the limited existing health care resources and could result in more equitable outcomes. Capitalizing on these relatively lower-hanging fruit can build support for much needed and otherwise seemingly intractable reform.
India – Transition paths towards better health outcomes in India: Optimizing the use of existing pooled government funds (Tarun Khanna, Nachiket Mor, and Sandhya Venkateswaran, Brookings)
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