new delhi market observers are keeping a close eye on the budget developments but the healthcare sector is growing impatient because many analysts think the government should increase its budgetary support for the sector senior citizens are primarily facing issues with health insurance where the company has placed a deterrent due to the elderly citizens baseline medical conditions they believe that the government should either take care of all the elderly peoples insurance or pressurise insurance companies to provide easy access to health insurance preetha reddy vice chairperson apollo hospitals vivek talaulikar ceo global hospital and chandrakant lahariya physician also offered their opinions to et now on the budgetary priorities that the government should take into accountpreetha reddy vice chairperson apollo hospitalsindia has a large population which makes providing healthcare a significant challenge one way to make healthcare more affordable is to lower the cost of inputs such as equipment and consumables through imports or domestic production another way to make healthcare more accessible is to increase the number of people who have insurance coverage i think a lot of states have their own state insurance which is doing very well the pradhan mantri jan arogya yojana pmjay also known as ayushman bharat is a governmentfunded health insurance scheme that aims to provide coverage to more people additionally private insurers also play a role in providing healthcare coverage which can help make healthcare more affordable for more people overall a culture shift towards greater insurance coverage and more affordable healthcare costs can help make healthcare more accessible to more people in india vivek talaulikar ceo global hospitaluniversal coverage on government schemes like ayushman bharat and pmjay pradhan manthri jan arogya yojna should be done government have to set a roadmap for this schemes should at least cover the senior citizens whose incomes are declining with the age government should create a corpus only for creating awareness about this oncology is growing like an epidemic beyond expectations in every hospital you find that oncology and cancer patients across are increasing and thats something which i feel the government should now focus on providing financial incentives to public or private health care organizations to import medical equipment should be considered the indian government can ensure that large companies that invest in imaging technology can manufacture in india through the make in india scheme this will reduce costs which will result in low cost treatmentthe government will have to hold healthcare startups accountable and provide incentives other than financial ones they must also provide them with resources to ensure that they bring in new technology and encourage indian scientists to do socorporate healthcare today is one of the major drivers apart from the public healthcare sector if the government continues to offer incentives as it does now corporate healthcare organizations will be eager to expand into tier 2 tier 3 cities as a result healthcare will be made available to the general public in tier 2 and tier 3 cities this will cause