As we analyse the Indian policy discourse, we find that healthcare financing and service delivery continues to stand out as an exception. Not only does it remain to be one of the least understood sectors but also, probably, is the worst performing amongst all. Even after 70 years of Independence, 45,000 mothers die each year during childbirth (highest in the world), 43.5 per cent of children under the age of five are underweight and malnourished (higher than Sub-Saharan Africa), and every year around 2,20,000 people lose their lives due to tuberculosis (highest burden in the world).

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