'Employers must take out health cover for workers'

Making it mandatory for organised sector employers to take health insurance cover for employees will help spread the reach of insurance products, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia suggested on Thursday. There has to be a mandatory provision for providing group health insurance cover to all workers in the organisedsector by their employers , he said at a CII Health Insurance Summit in New Delhi. He said, I think it is feasible, the government should give very serious consideration to this (making it mandatory for employers to get group insurance for their workers). We will never be able to spread ...

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