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Point<br />
Out<br />
Redefining Governance<br />
THE GENERIC MAN<br />
DR SHAMIT SHARMA<br />
For a country like<br />
India, that witnessed<br />
a general increase in<br />
lifespan coupled with<br />
very poor medical/<br />
public health insurance<br />
facility, increasing cost<br />
of medicines has hit<br />
hard poor and well to do<br />
families. At a time when<br />
the country is looking for<br />
ways to subsidize medical<br />
treatment cost and<br />
make it affordable with<br />
experiments like the one<br />
Karnataka government<br />
did by tying up with Dr.<br />
Devi Shetty’s Naranaya<br />
Hrudayalaya and Andhra<br />
Pradesh government’s<br />
medical insurance policy<br />
for poor, a bureaucrat<br />
from Rajasthan made<br />
waves by trying a very<br />
simple experiment<br />
-getting generic<br />
medicines dispensed from<br />
government hospitals.<br />
38<br />
july 2014
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