Get cracking – The Hindu (Feb 03 2018)

Get cracking – The Hindu (Feb 03 2018)

The NDA government lost precious time in its first three years in initiating a health scheme that serves the twin purposes of achieving universal coverage and saving people from high health care costs.  For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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Word List-2(To Improve English Vocabulary)

1. get cracking (phrase) – hasten/expedite the action, be quick, hurry up.
2. draw up (phrasal verb) – arrange, formulate, plan.
3. envisage (verb) – foresee, predict; contemplate/envision.
4. vulnerable (adjective) – relating to the people who are weak because of age, disability & etc.
5. fragmented (adjective) – divided, fractured, separated.
6. tertiary care (adjective) – specialized consultative care, higher level care.
7. personnel (noun) – staff, employees, workforce.
8. for-profit (adjective) – denoting an organization operated to make a profit.
9. subsume (verb) – include, encompass, incorporate.
10. empanelled hospitals (verb) – a particular health insurance policy provider’s network hospitals which provide cashless and hassle free hospitalization benefits to the policy holder.
11. incidence (noun) – occurrence, prevalence, commonness.
12. dispense (verb) – allot, distribute, disburse/supply.
13. resort to (verb) – turn to, use/utilize, employ.
14. inflate (verb) – increase, rise, escalate (by a large amount).
15. asymmetry (noun) – non-uniformity, unevenness, lack of equality.

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