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India Eyes Tax Incentives for Employers Providing Health Insurance

by CFO Innovation Asia Staff, 10 September 2010
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India is looking into providing tax incentives to employers providing health insurance, reports the Economic Times.

 

Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told the Times that government should  make it mandatory for employers to get group insurance for their workers. To encourage employers to provide health cover, the government must provide incentives.

 

"We will never be able to spread (health) insurance for which people pay unless an element of incentive-cum-compulsion is introduced," Ahluwalia told the Times.
 

 

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I was reading a couple of tummy tuck Seattle articles a few days ago.Now when I read this article it scares me because the world is going crazy.I don't understand how can you make everything difficult when it comes of health and people.

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Submitted by Daniel Green on 21 March 2012 - 9:54pm

Maybe they should follow the example of a Phoenix drug rehabilitation facility. They manage quite well and they do offer health insurance. I don't know why other countries have a problem with setting up some strict regulations for health insurance providers.

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