What a difference a state makes : health reform in Andhra Pradesh (English)

In the mid-2000s, India began rolling out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes mostly targeting the poor. This paper describes and analyzes Andhra Pradesh's Aarogyasri scheme, which covers against the costs of around 900 high-cost procedures delivered in secondary and tertiary hospitals. Using a new household survey, the authors find that 80 percent of families are eligible, equal to about 68 million people, and 85 percent of these...
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Bergkvist, Sofi; Katyal, Anuradha; Rao, Mala; Samarth, Amit; Singh, Prabal V.; Wagstaff, Adam.

What a difference a state makes : health reform in Andhra Pradesh (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6883 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/942511468268474367

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