The $12.4-billion Indian business process outsourcing sector is on an overdrive to beef up its manpower presence in the US, to cash in on the opportunity after the recently enacted US healthcare bill. Known popularly as ObamaCare, the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act promises, among other things, to extend health insurance cover to 32 million more Americans. In the two months since the law came into force, several Indian BPOs like Genpact, Aegis and Avantha have sewn up partnerships and acquisitions to tap the billions that will be spent to overhaul the US health IT infrastructure towards actualising ...

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