With More and more poor people in the country getting into the debt trap due to medical expenses, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on Sunday said that steps need to be taken  to increase the health insurance awareness and penetration. Taking proper and appropriate health insurance policy is the least most priority of the Indians and they simply look it as a waste of money.

At present health insurance overs only 15% of the population out of which the major chunk comes from the group health policies.

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