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Directions(1-7): Read the given passage carefully and answer the following questions. Certain parts have been highlighted to help answer the questions.
The lingering COVID-19 crisis is a good time to revive an issue that is, oddly, slow to come to life in India — universal health care (UHC). Meanwhile, UHC has become a well-accepted objective of public policy around the world. It has even been largely realised in many countries, not only the richer ones (minus the United States) but also a growing number of other countries such as Brazil, China, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Some of them, such as Thailand, made a decisive move towards UHC at a time (20 years ago) when their per capita GDP was no higher than India’s per capita GDP today. The time has come for India — or some Indian States at least — to take the plunge.
The basic idea of UHC is that no one should be deprived of quality health care for the lack of ability to pay. This idea was well expressed — in archaic words perhaps — by Aneurin Bevan, the fiery founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain. “No society,” he said, “can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.” The same idea inspired the Bhore Committee report of 1946, where a case was made for India to create its own NHS-type health-care system.
In concrete terms, UHC typically relies on one or both of two basic approaches: public service and social insurance. In the first approach, health care is provided as a free public service, just like the services of a fire brigade or public library. If this sounds like socialist thinking, that is what it is. Interestingly, however, this socialist project has worked not only in communist countries such as Cuba but also in the capitalist world (well beyond the United Kingdom). The second approach allows private as well as public provision of health care, but the costs are mostly borne by the social insurance fund(s), not the patient, so the result is similar: everyone has access to quality health care. Social insurance is very different from a private insurance market. The simplest variant is one where insurance is compulsory and universal, financed mainly from general taxation, and run by a single non-profit agency in the public interest. That is how it works in Canada (province-wise), and to varying extents in other countries with “national health insurance” (e.g., Australia and Taiwan).
1. What is/are the underlying motive(s) behind Universal health care?
A. Universal health care program is launched to provide vaccines in every country
B. Its aim is to make healthcare services available in rural and outskirts areas
C. UHC is to make medical services accessible to everyone irrespective of his or her paying capability.
D. All of these
E. None of these
2. According to ‘Aneurin Bevan’, what is the salient component of a country for being civilized?
A. Any country that is civilized should not depend on other countries for medical supply
B. In a country, the absence of means should not be the reason for refusing medical aid to anyone
C. A country should provide medical aid to other countries in case of emergency like pandemic
D. A country’s government should allocate more funds to boost medical research.
E. None of these
3. What does the first approach of UHC i.e., ‘public service’ imply?
A. Providing free medical services only
B. Medical inaccessibility shouldn’t be the reason for mortality
C. Health care services are provisioned as a free public service
D. Getting reimbursement of all exorbitant medical tests and medicine
E. None of these
4. Which of the following statements describe(s) the simplest variant of social insurance?
A. The insurance which is managed by the single non-profit agency
B. Insurance which is mandatory and common for all
C. Insurance which is chiefly financed by the tax collected by the government
D. All of these
E. None of these
5. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE as per the information given in the passage?
A. Universal Health Care counts on one or two basic approaches
B. UHC has been considered not only in affluent but in other countries also
C. Social insurance scheme made quality health services accessible to everyone
D. Thailand moved towards UHC when its per capita GDP was higher than India’s current GDP
E. None of these
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6. Which of the following words is/are synonym of ‘REVIVE’ given in the passage?
A. reinvigorate
B. reckless
C. hailed
D. convene
E. All of these
7. Which of the following words is an antonym of ‘COMPULSORY’ given in the passage?
A. enormous
B. attrition
C. attain
D. voluntary
E. resolute
Directions(8-10): Read the passage carefully and answer the given question based upon that.
The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village Yorkshire began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours.
The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them. Though they gathered together quietly for a while, then they broke into rowdy behavior, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix—the villagers pronounced this name “Dellacroy”—eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys, and the very small children rolled in the dust or clung to the hands of their older brothers or sisters.
Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed. The women, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk. They greeted one another and exchanged bits of conversation as they went to join their husbands. Soon the women, standing by their husbands, began to call to their children, and the children came reluctantly, having to be called four or five times.
The lottery was conducted—as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program—by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities. He was a round-faced, friendly man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him because he had no children and his wife was a scold. When he arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers, and he waved and called. “Little late today, folks. ” The postmaster, Mr. Graves, followed him, carrying a three-legged stool, and the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr. Summers set the black box down on it. Mr. Summers said, “Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?” there was a hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers stirred up the papers inside it.
8. Why the villagers of Yorkshire gathered in square?
A. As they had a lottery session that was going to be held around 10 o’clock.
B. As they had an orchestral party to celebrate the village’s centennial anniversary.
C. As a baron from nearby town was distributing free foods to celebrate the birth of his son.
D. As the villagers used to gather once in a month to resolve any kind of property dispute.
E. None of these
9. What was the behavior of the children who were assembled in that village?
A. Though they were noisy at first, but they became quiet hearing the loud greeting of the speaker
B. They were reluctant to stand there for such a long duration.
C. They tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play
D. They were gathered in a circle and laughing in a hysterical manner
E. None of these
10. Which of the following is TRUE as per the given passage?
A. Seeing Bobby Martin, other village boys also followed his act of collecting the smoothest and roundest stone.
B. Dickie Delacroix was being called “Dellacroy” by the villagers.
C. After exchanging pleasantry, the women joined their husbands in the gathered crowd.
D. Only (A) and (C)
E. All of these
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