TY - BOOK ID - 11943624 TI - Government-sponsored health insurance in India : are you covered? AU - La Forgia, Gerard M. AU - Nagpal, Somil. AU - World Bank. PY - 2012 SN - 0821396188 9786613916501 0821396196 1283604051 PB - Washington DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- India. KW - Health expenditures -- India. KW - National Health Programs -- economics -- India. KW - Social Sciences KW - Insurance KW - Health Services Administration KW - Health Planning KW - Asia, Western KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Patient Care Management KW - Costs and Cost Analysis KW - Health Care KW - Asia KW - Financing, Organized KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Geographic Locations KW - Geographicals KW - Health Expenditures KW - Insurance Coverage KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - India KW - National Health Programs KW - Insurance, Health KW - Organization and Administration KW - Economics KW - Public Health KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Medical Economics KW - National health services KW - Medical care KW - Medicine, State KW - National health care KW - Nationalized health services KW - Socialized medicine KW - State medical care KW - State medicine KW - Medical policy KW - Public health UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11943624 AB - This book presents research findings on India's major central and state government-sponsored health insurance schemes (GSHISs). The analysis centers on the GSHISs launched since 2007. These schemes targeted poor populations, aiming to provide financial protection against catastrophic health shocks, defined in terms of inpatient care. Focus is on two lines of inquiry. The first involves institutional and "operational" opportunities and challenges regarding schemes' design features, governance arrangements, financial flows, cost-containment mechanisms, underlying stakeholder incentives, informat ER -