Under the mandate of the National Common Minimum programme (NCMP) of the UPA Government, health care is one of the 7 thrust areas wherein it is proposed to increase the expenditure in health sector from 0.9 % of GDP to 2-3% of GDP over the next five years. Accordingly, a National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched on 12 'h April 2005 for a period of 7 years (2005-2012), i.e. for two years...

The United States spent an estimated $247 billion for health care in 1980 (Figure 1), an amount equal to 9.4 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Highlights of the figures that underlie this estimate include the following: Health care expenditures in 1980 accelerated at a time when the economy as a whole exhibited sluggish growth. The 9.4 percent share of the GNP was a dramatic increase...

The 1987 national health expenditure estimates are examined from different perspectives in the following two articles. In the first article, revised expenditure estimates for 1984-87 are presented. A breakdown of the type of services and products purchased is included, as well as the source of funds used to finance health care. In the second article, health care expenditure estimates are used t...

There’s an old saying that you might hear in bars where journalists gather: don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Well, Investors Business Daily certainly took that approach as it waded into the great American health care debate. An editorial proclaimed that famed physicist Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance” if he lived in the UK and had to rely on Britain’s National Health ...

will be constituted as follows : Lord Lawrence of Kingsgate (Chairman), Sir John Anderson, Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Bt., Sir Alfred Watson, Sir Arthur Worley, Sir Andrew Duncan, Mr. A. D. Besant, Mr. Fred. Bramley, Professor Alexander Gray, Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Mrs. Harrison Bell, Mr. James Cook, Mr. John Evans, and Mr. William Jones. The Secretary to the Commission, to whom all communication...