Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Healthcare: Public or Private?. 2. Healthcare in India.3. Financing Healthcare. 4. Health Insurance: India’s Story. 5. RSBY: Context and Capacity. 6. Contract Design. 7. Accessibility, Availability, Utilisation. 8. RSBY: Lessons for PM-JAY. This book is based on a study of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) scheme aimed at understanding the provision, availability and use of health services under Public - Private Partnership contracts and the factors that influence such services, in order to inform policymakers on how to improve the scheme design for the below poverty line beneficiary. With the current focus on Universal Health Care as its backdrop, the book focuses on the regulatory and political environment, insitutional capacity and contract design of the scheme to understand its strength and weaknesses. It looks at the incentive structures created by division of roles, responsibilities and relationships within the contracts. In addition the research evaluates the avaibility and accessibility of services and analayses the utilisation patterns. It also compares the provision of healthcare across public and private providers for RSPY and non - RSBY beneficiaries for a specific type of provider.