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  "id": 5455497,
  "title": "India’s 40-crore ‘missing middle’: caught between weak public healthcare and costly private care",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/indias-40-crore-missing-middle-caught-between-weak-public-healthcare",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-03T09:36:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu Health",
    "slug": "the-hindu-health",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/indias-40-crore-missing-middle-caught-between-weak-public-healthcare-and-costly-private-care/article71403776.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A Parliamentary panel has flagged affordability gaps, with private providers delivering most of the country’s care. The threat, today, may therefore not be a single catastrophic medical bill but the slow erosion of household income through medicines, consultations, tests and repeated treatment",
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        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "India’s 40-crore ‘missing middle’: caught between weak public healthcare and costly private care",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/indias-40-crore-missing-middle-caught-between-weak-public-healthcare-5455935",
        "published": "2026-09-03T09:36:15.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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