{"id":2239,"date":"2026-10-08T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.myinstants39.com\/in-keralam-affordable-private-health-care-is-easier-said-than-done\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:58:13","slug":"in-keralam-affordable-private-health-care-is-easier-said-than-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"In Keralam, \u2018affordable\u2019 private health care is easier said than done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"schemaDiv\" id=\"schemaDiv\">\n<p>The Keralam government\u2019s announcement that it will make private health care more \u201caffordable\u201d through consultations with the private health sector, and that a Bill in this regard was in the offing, should be seen against the State\u2019s seven-year legal battle before the Kerala High Court upheld the Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulations) Act 2018, throwing out all objections raised by private hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The KCE Act was the first ever attempt made in the State to bring the entire health sector, public and private, under a regulatory framework.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keralam government\u2019s efforts to draft a new Bill in this regard brings the Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulations) Act 2018, back into focus; the private health sector is still holding out against the Act, which aims to bring the entire health sector, public and private, under a regulatory framework<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}