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## Summary India has run multiple Government-Funded Health Insurance schemes (GFHIS) over the past decades to ensure affordable healthcare. We assessed GFHIS evolution with a special focus on two national schemes - Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). RSBY suffered from a static financial coverage cap, low enrollment, inequitable service supply, utilization, etc. PMJAY expanded coverage and mitigated some of RSBY's drawbacks. Investigating equity in PMJAY's supply and utilization across geography, sex, age, social groups, and healthcare sectors depicts several systemic skews. Kerala and Himachal Pradesh with low poverty and disease burden use more services. Males are more likely to seek care under PMJAY than females. Mid-age population (19–50 years) is a common group availing services. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people have low service utilization. Most hospitals providing services are private. Such inequities can lead the most vulnerable populations further into deprivation due to healthcare inaccessibility.

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Author

Sweta Dubey; Swasti Deshpande; Lokesh Krishna; Siddhesh Zadey

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)