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Last month, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a statement that the 2021–22 budget would be historic, which we had “never before” one that would pitch India into becoming the engine of global growth. The
Economic Survey 2020–21, presented in Volume 1, devoted an entire chapter, “Healthcare Takes Centre Stage, Finally!” to health, underlining the importance of public healthcare and health expenditure in improving life expectancy, reducing maternal and child mortality, and the impact of the government spending on decreasing out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE). The high OOPE spins a vicious circle of poverty, which results in poor health outcomes. Seemingly, the Government of India acknowledged the significance of healthcare and has shown a commitment to strengthen the health system (health financing, health infrastructure and human resource, and health management information) at least in documents, that is, the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 and the es