The scheme closed in July 2015 after 30 months due to government concerns over low uptake and industry standards but additional factors potentially contributed to its failure such as poor scheme design and lack of understanding of the customer and supply chain journey.
Before 2001 there were two public health insurance schemes: a free care for the poor scheme known as the Medical Welfare Scheme (MWS), initiated in 1975, and a subsidised Voluntary Health Card Scheme (VHCS) that was introduced in 1983.
These efforts eventually resulted in the Health Insurance for the Poor scheme or Asuransi Kesehatan Masyarakat Miskin (Askeskin) in 2004, which evolved into the Community Health Insurance program or Jaminan Kesehatan Masyarakat (Jamkesmas) in 2008.
Service quality at health facilities lags especially in Madhya Pradesh, though institutional deliveries increased from 41% in 2005-06 to 52% in 2006-07 following the introduction of pro-poor schemes like JSY.
It's a great get-rich scheme for those at the top, but a stay-poor scheme for the workers at the bottom, and a lose-your-business scheme for honest competitors.
In essence, a soak-the-poor scheme that would benefit those who think spending tax money on people who don't live in their neighborhood is an affront to their constitutional rights.
And though public services were poor -- Baghdad residents received full electricity, but those elsewhere saw far less -- the regime ran a substantial food-for-the-poor scheme during the UN embargo era in a bid to curb opposition to Saddam's rule.
What Christie neglected to point out, while lauding increases in aid to wealthy towns, is that the proposal is a clear rob-from-the-poor scheme in which these large sums of cash are being diverted from the schools serving the most students in need.
Food-safety inspections, oversight of financial institutions, college scholarships for the poor, nutrition schemes for mothers and babies and other seemingly unobjectionable items would all be scaled down.
The expansion of tree plantations in developing countries preceded, for the most part, the introduction of codes of good practice (e.g., FAO 2006) and certification standards for their responsible management. 1 During this period, large-scale tree plantation firms have sometimes taken advantage of poor regulatory schemes as well as cheap land and labor (Szulecka et al. 2014).
However, Webb ruled out setting a charge cap on workplace pensions unless there was evidence people were signing up for poor-value schemes, suggesting it might give employers a false sense of a scheme's quality.
