Kautilya

Another scheme by a politician to pocket more money and power

Posted On: October 4, 2006 - 10:57pm by kautilya

And, you guessed it right this politician also wants to "help the poor". It is none other then the Indian politician Ram Vilas Paswan who "will shortly introduce a Health Insurance Scheme under which 250 million poor people will get free medicines."
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What do you think will happen? Let me make a few predictions:
- A lot of this money will be wasted on bureaucracy to run this project
- A big chuck of the money will go to the politicians running this program. after all the are the real "poor"
- Another chunk will go to the drug companies who will supply overpriced and substandard medicines for this program, i.e. if they supply the complete contracted amount.
- This program will never end... it will only expand

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