This commentary seeks to critically evaluate the new National Health Policy, which emerged as a comprehensive document for Universal Health Coverage in India. Whether the new initiative, with its emphasis on the alignment of private healthcare sector with public health, is merely a window dressing of the old health policies or does it offer something substantive and new?
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