The Wire's Anoo Bhuyan in conversation with Kerala's finance minister Thomas Isaac on the Central government's ambitious new scheme, 'Ayushman Bharat'.
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) is one of the two components of Ayushman Bharat, the Narendra Modi government’s flagship health initiative. The other component is the creation of 1,50,000 “health and wellness centres”. Can the government afford to pay insurance premiums and why is Kerala resisting this scheme?
