To others, it is a mixed bag, silent on capping prices of healthcare services in private hospitals based on a "scientific rational formula. "This one step opened the floodgates, with some state drug regulators investigating the extent to which private hospitals profited through a business in which they refused to be labelled retailers. "It is well established that the prices charged by private hospitals are usurious and has no link to the actual cost involved in providing services. India has to step up its public funding for health, he says, and public health experts agree. "It is only when the government also offers quality that the private sector will fall in line.

Source: Economic Times November 29, 2017 19:07 UTC