{"id":30973,"date":"2018-10-27T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30973"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:09:21","slug":"nhps-a-gimmick-says-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nhps-a-gimmick-says-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"NHPS a gimmick, says Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/nhps-a-gimmick-says-chidambaram\/article22861863.ece\"><b>NHPS a gimmick, says Chidambaram<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has dubbed the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) as a gimmick alleging that it was introduced without any proper planning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Details:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criticising the Centre for the scheme, P. Chidambaram wondered how it will provide funds for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also mocked at the Centre\u2019s move to ask the States to bear 40% of the expenditure on NHPS<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has asked why the State governments should bear it when they have healthcare programmes of their own.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, he has argued that the NDA government has been unable to reduce the fiscal deficit \u201csignificantly\u201d since coming to power in 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About NHPS:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NHPS aims to provide health insurance coverage to 10 crore families with an insurance ceiling of up to Rs. 5 lakh per family.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHPS a gimmick, says Chidambaram Context: Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has dubbed the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) as a gimmick alleging that it was introduced without any proper planning Details: Criticising the Centre for the scheme, P. Chidambaram wondered how it will provide funds for it. He also mocked at the Centre\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nhps-a-gimmick-says-chidambaram\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NHPS a gimmick, says Chidambaram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704133279},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}