Health Insurance Scheme In Budget

The Delhi High Court today said nurses not dealing with COVID-19 patients cannot be included in the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, which provides for a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover to frontline health workers, as doing so might affect the very budget of the scheme.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced an outlay of about Rs 69,000 crore for the health sector in the 2020-2021 fiscal, with Rs 6,400 crore earmarked for the Centre's flagship health insurance scheme Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).

The National Health Protection Scheme under which Rs 5 lakh medical insurance cover will be provided annually to 10 crore families, announced in the Union Budget 2018, will be implemented by the end of this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today

The Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday raised questions about key budgetary proposals like for the proposed health insurance scheme and setting MSP at 50 per cent above the cost terming them as "jumlas" and also claimed the Centre was exaggerating data related to job creation.

While the Modi government has recently announced an ambitious Rs 5 lakh medical insurance cover for 10 crore poor families in Budget 2018, the Centre can probably take a few lessons from the Tamil Nadu model which launched its own health insurance programme in 2009.

A day after he announced the world's biggest government-funded health cover in the annual budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said it will be a cashless scheme, not a reimbursement one. Amid apprehensions about the provisional allocation of Rs 2000 for the scheme, Mr Jaitley promised more funds as the scheme rolls out in the next financial ...

In the Union Budget 2018-19, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that India will have the world's largest healthcare programme for half a billion of its poorest citizens. He went on to lay out plans to merge three public sector insurance companies and list the new entity. The plan was soon dubbed "NaMoCare" by BJP president Amit Shah and "ModiC...

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

The Union Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today gave a provision for minimum support price of all crops to be increased to at least 1.5 times of production cost. Mr Jaitley also announced a National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor families, which he said is the "world's largest state-sponsored healthcare progr...

Insurance cover of up to Rs one lakh per family and some 3,000 medical stores for affordable medicines are the highlights of a new health protection scheme announced in todays Budget.

The Delhi High Court today said nurses not dealing with COVID-19 patients cannot be included in the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, which provides for a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover to frontline health workers, as doing so might affect the very budget of the scheme.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced an outlay of about Rs 69,000 crore for the health sector in the 2020-2021 fiscal, with Rs 6,400 crore earmarked for the Centre's flagship health insurance scheme Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).

The National Health Protection Scheme under which Rs 5 lakh medical insurance cover will be provided annually to 10 crore families, announced in the Union Budget 2018, will be implemented by the end of this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today

The Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday raised questions about key budgetary proposals like for the proposed health insurance scheme and setting MSP at 50 per cent above the cost terming them as "jumlas" and also claimed the Centre was exaggerating data related to job creation.

While the Modi government has recently announced an ambitious Rs 5 lakh medical insurance cover for 10 crore poor families in Budget 2018, the Centre can probably take a few lessons from the Tamil Nadu model which launched its own health insurance programme in 2009.

A day after he announced the world's biggest government-funded health cover in the annual budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said it will be a cashless scheme, not a reimbursement one. Amid apprehensions about the provisional allocation of Rs 2000 for the scheme, Mr Jaitley promised more funds as the scheme rolls out in the next financial ...

In the Union Budget 2018-19, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that India will have the world's largest healthcare programme for half a billion of its poorest citizens. He went on to lay out plans to merge three public sector insurance companies and list the new entity. The plan was soon dubbed "NaMoCare" by BJP president Amit Shah and "ModiC...

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

The Union Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today gave a provision for minimum support price of all crops to be increased to at least 1.5 times of production cost. Mr Jaitley also announced a National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor families, which he said is the "world's largest state-sponsored healthcare progr...

Insurance cover of up to Rs one lakh per family and some 3,000 medical stores for affordable medicines are the highlights of a new health protection scheme announced in todays Budget.