the country ramachandran saidan enhancement in tax concessions has been helpful in many parts of the world to increase health insurance uptake by population a large working class and young population must also be healthy to meet indias goal of 5 trillion gdp by 2025 and health insurance will be a major tool in helping realise this goal he further statedaccording to shikha mittal founder of beartsy covid19 treatment expense is a big example for government to gauge the impact of financial instability a family can experience rebates that can ease pressure for a common household is what section 80d must aim for hence the rs 25000 cap for health insurance must be reconsidered to be raised to at least a lakhthe economic survey has strongly recommended an increase in public spending on healthcare services from 1 per cent to 25 to 3 per cent of gdp as envisaged in the national health policy 2017it has also highlighted that the step can significantly reduce the outofpocketexpenditure oope from 65 per cent to 35 per cent of the overall healthcare spend