Kerala’s Push for ‘Affordable’ Private Health Care Exposes a Regulatory Fault Line
Kerala’s plan to draft a new Bill on private health care has revived scrutiny of the Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulations) Act, 2018, a law intended to bring both public and private providers under a common regulatory framework. The move has also sharpened tensions with the private health sector, which continues to resist tighter oversight even as the state argues that affordability and accountability must go hand in hand.
