How far will you go to save your child or parents? To poverty and beyond, is what many thousand Indians are doing each day. The draft National Health Policy 2015 mentioned that 63 million Indians face poverty due to health expenses every year. Millions more suffer grave financial losses. In an India where you and your sentiments matter only if you have a social media account, these people’s misfortunes simply remain inaudible and invisible.
A health system directly affects the financial condition of citizens through what is known as out-of-pocket expenses, or OOPE. This is the money patients pay right away from their own pockets (as against insurance or government-provided free care).

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