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COVER STORY | Health

...otherwise, the uninsured family would

have to spend money out of their pocket

The 71st survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) found that 85.9% of rural families
and 82% of urban families do not have health insurance. More than 17% of the Indian population spends
at least 10% of their household budget on health services. Excessive expenditure on health services pushes
families into debt. More than 24% of the population in rural India and 18% of the population in urban areas
meet their health care expenses through some kind of loan. Now about 60 crore of the population is covered
under it, which has relieved them of their worries about health expenses.

disease has been treated free of cost with the help of
Ayushman Yojana. After the treatment, Gyanendra Ayushman Bharat, Sabka
wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Jeevan Kavach, sensitive
expressed his heartfelt gratitude. This transformative
scheme has made it easy for millions of people like and reliable health security
Gyanendra to benefit, who used to go below the for women, the elderly, and
poverty line due to the burden of treatment expenses children, so that people of
about a decade ago. The revolutionary scheme of free all ages and every family can
treatment up to Rs 5 lakh has become a boon for more remain worry-free
than 60 crore poor, middle-class, and elderly people

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