{"id":132602,"date":"2024-09-11T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/cabinet-approves-rs-5-lakh-health-cover-for-senior-citizens-above-70-under-ayushman-bharat-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:22:59","slug":"cabinet-approves-rs-5-lakh-health-cover-for-senior-citizens-above-70-under-ayushman-bharat-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/cabinet-approves-rs-5-lakh-health-cover-for-senior-citizens-above-70-under-ayushman-bharat-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Rs 5 lakh health cover for senior citizens above 70 under Ayushman Bharat Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-113267624,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg?resize=1070,580&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cabinet approves Rs 5 lakh health cover for senior citizens above 70 under Ayushman Bharat Scheme\" title=\"Cabinet approves Rs 5 lakh health cover for senior citizens above 70 under Ayushman Bharat Scheme\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a major announcement on Wednesday, the Centre said that senior citizens aged 70 and above will now be included in the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana health insurance scheme. While making the announcement, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said nearly 4.5 crore families, including 6 crore senior citizens, will be covered under the scheme. The move aims to provide free treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/cabinet-approves-rs-5-lakh-health-cover-for-senior-citizens-above-70-under-ayushman-bharat-scheme\/videoshow\/113267624.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major announcement on Wednesday, the Centre said that senior citizens aged 70 and above will now be included in the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana health insurance scheme. While making the announcement, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said nearly 4.5 crore families, including 6 crore senior citizens, will be covered under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-113267624,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[5960,17845,23547,16317,106465,63371,6157,5099,69284,7361,6243,19212,649,35780,5957,8940,10650,26033],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132604,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132602\/revisions\/132604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}