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Ayushman Bharat: How to nudge India’s public health infrastructure

Designing a government-sponsored health insurance scheme for the poor is a challenging task. The ignorance of the poor and the information asymmetry between doctors and patients creates a fertile ground for denying benefits to the poor to serve vested interests. A recent report of deceiving poor patients in Safdarjung Hospital (‘Bypassing Ayushman Bharat, doctor at top govt hospital duped patients, made killing on implants’, IE, July 20) is one such example.