#24: Why does India spend just 1.9% of GDP on health?
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byJayant Mundhra
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 02:16 AM
The 2.5% target was due in 2025. India missed it, and the gap does not show up in a budget line. It shows up at the pharmacy counter.
I want to start with a date that quietly passed us by. In 2017, the National Health Policy set India a single, structurally sensible target: raise government health spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2025.1 … [+12480 chars]
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