Watch | Does India Have the Funds to Run the World’s Largest Healthcare Scheme?

The Wire’s Anoo Bhuyan in conversation with Kerala’s finance minister Thomas Isaac on the Central government’s ambitious new scheme, ‘Ayushman Bharat’.

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) is one of the two components of Ayushman Bharat, the Narendra Modi government’s flagship health initiative. The other component is the creation of 1,50,000 “health and wellness centres”. Can the government afford to pay insurance premiums and why is Kerala resisting this scheme?

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Author: Anoo Bhuyan

Anoo Bhuyan covers health policy for The Wire. Before this she worked at Outlook Magazine, National Public Radio and BBC. She did her postgraduate degree in Conflict and Development Studies from SOAS, University of London. She tweets at @AnooBhu​ and archives her work at ​www.anoobhuyan.wordpress.com