"Demand Side" Health Insurance in India
The Price of Obfuscation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eck (0000-0001-7523-9807, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Stefan Eck |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 404-416 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1929208 |
| PMID | 34047660 |
| OpenAlex | W3165718598 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 35 |
In India, most healthcare expenses are patients' out-of-pocket payments to private sector providers. Catastrophic health expenditures drive millions of families deeper into poverty. To save poorer households, hundreds of government-funded health insurance schemes have been introduced since the 2000s. These "demand side" schemes suggest that treatments in the private sector will be fully reimbursed. Fieldwork in one of India's largest hospitals shows that GFHIs overpromise. GFHIs are designed to turn patients into co-creators of healthcare value, but instead they deepen individuals' lack of market transparency. Poor patients pay the price for the state's lack of trust in them
Business · Demand side · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Health care · Health insurance · Payment · Political science · Poverty · Private insurance · Private sector · Public economics · Transparency (behavior · Value (mathematics · Finance · Global Health Care Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Reforms
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |