Change coming: Big private trusts knock on RSBY doors

Two private trusts will soon enroll their beneficiaries in the UPA government's flagship health insurance scheme for poor, together adding nearly 2.5 lakh families, a development that promises to alter the delivery of healthcare to the poor. The IFMR Trust that provides rural finance to 1.7 lakh households and the Manipal Education and Medical group covering 80,000 families, were given approval this week to participate in the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, or RSBY.

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