In 2007 the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce … catastrophic health expenditures in households ‘below the poverty line’. We exploit variation in program roll-out over time and … and scheduled tribe households as much as the rest of the population. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York …

Background: Improvements in the financing of healthcare services are important for developing countries like India to … India. India has a mixed health-system with a sizeable presence of private hospitals. Existing studies show that out …-profit private providers, this study in Indian state of Chhattisgarh assessed the combined spending by government and households per …