Health insurance scheme in offing for Central government employees
With special focus on pensioners and serving Central government employees, a health insurance scheme is in the offing.
What is Health Insurance?
The term ‘Health Insurance’ relates to a type of insurance that essentially covers your medical expenses.A health insurance policy like other policies is a contract between an insurer and an individual /…
Health Insurance: Insurers looking at cover for outpatient treatment
In India the health Insurers are looking at providing covers for outpatient treatments.Â
Health Insurance : Consumer Forum directs insurance company to pay Rs 5.5 lakh
The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ordered New India Assurance Co Ltd to pay Rs 3 lakh to a Malad resident, 14 years after she underwent a bypass surgery…
Where insurance schemes may be injurious to health
Over the last few years there has been a virtual competition among the States to launch government-funded health insurance schemes. The “success†of Arogyasri in Andhra Pradesh has ensured that…
Hypertension, diabetes rise in Ahmedabad: AMC survey
The entrepreneur Amdavadi across various economic strata now shows chronic signs of being both stressed and diabetic. Â
How to make the most of ‘day- care’ health insurance covers?
Health insurance agnostics often cite the lack of cover for small or over-the-counter medical expenses to justify their scepticism. Their grouse is that though visits to a doctor and the…
Health insurance: Employers try co-payment
Health insurance benefit today is a hygiene factor for employers and they cannot afford to treat it as a talent attraction or a retention tool anymore.
Why health insurance is regarded as an imperfect market?
Economists often describe health insurance as an imperfect market. To understand the concept we have to dwelt in deep the features of an imperfect market.
Insurance Industry in India must focus from Growth to Development
Dr. P. Nandagopal, MD & CEO, India First Life Insurance Co. Ltd.while addressing the ASSOCHAM seminar said “Peering into the next decade, we realize the way forward is by shifting…