Government has increased public health expenditure

The latest available National Health Accounts (NHA) provides healthcare expenditure for India and selected states for the year 2014-15. Government has increased the total public health expenditure (center and states) from `1.49 lakh crore in 2014-15 to `2.25 lakh crore in 2017-18 (BE) according to economic survey 2017-18. Further, the National Health Policy, 2017 envisages raising government health spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2025 in a time-bound manner. It also envisages increasing state sector health spending to more than 8 percent of their budget by 2020.