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		<title>Higher The Healthcare  Spend, Better The Healthcare Performance: A Myth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is generally believed, higher the per-capita expenditure of healthcare, better is the overall ‘healthcare performance’ of a nation. However, this myth has recently been busted by a new study, the take-home message of which would be quite relevant for &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/higher-the-healthcare-spend-better-the-healthcare-performance-a-myth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the woods for the trees &#8211; Yet another golden opportunity to rewrite the Drug Policy of India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long overdue the new ‘Drug Policy’ of India, since a long while, has been languishing as the ‘prisoner of indecision’ of the policy makers, while the outdated ‘1995 Drug Policy’ continues to remain operational since over a decade and half, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/missing-the-woods-for-the-trees-yet-another-golden-opportunity-to-rewrite-the-drug-policy-of-india/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why does the Government divert focus on to fringe issues to address critical healthcare concerns of the nation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Government of India has recently initiated a public debate through a ‘Discussion Paper on Compulsory Licensing (CL) of Patented Pharmaceutical Products’. The key &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/why-does-the-government-divert-focus-on-to-fringe-issues-to-address-critical-healthcare-concerns-of-the-nation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The need for urgent healthcare reform in India: The way forward.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we look at the history of development of the developed countries of the world, we shall see that all of them had invested and even now are investing to improve the social framework of the country where education and &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-need-for-urgent-healthcare-reform-in-india-the-way-forward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China has recently unfolded the blueprints of its new healthcare reform measures, when will India do so?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early April, 2009, China, a country with 1.3 billion people, unfolded a plan for a new healthcare reform process for the next decade to provide safe, effective, convenient and affordable healthcare services to all its citizens. A budgetary allocation of &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/china-has-recently-unfolded-the-blueprints-of-its-new-healthcare-reform-measures-when-will-india-do-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>65% of Indians do not have access to affordable modern medical treatment – why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India is indeed a country of many paradoxes. Not just peaceful co-existence of luxurious sky scrapers and dilapidated shanties side by side. In the healthcare sector as well, we witness on one side booming medical tourism of foreign nationals to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/65-of-indians-do-not-have-access-to-affordable-modern-medical-treatment-why/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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