• The 15th Finance Commission has mooted a greater role for public private partnerships to ramp up health infrastructure.

From Finance Commission:

• Finance Commission seeks to scale up public spending on health from 0.95% of the GDP to 2.5% by 2024.
• While public outlays should focus on primary health care at the panchayat and municipality levels, private players should be relied on for specialty healthcare.
• The commission has recommended steps to fix the skewed availability of healthcare across India as poorer States have the worst facilities.