NDA 3.0 is now giving UPA 2.0 vibes ! The Decline is not just perceptible but also visible. The Government is totally disconnected from sentiment on ground. A rude shock at the state polls is the only way to shake them up. Electoral invincibility has created that arrogance of power.
The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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UPI Charges Row | Ashneer Grover Exclusive
If I transfer ₹1 lakh to my friend through UPI, or I pay ₹3,000 using a QR code, what is the cost of running the system? The cost is the same. So, if I transfer ₹1 lakh to my friend, nobody is making money from it. But if I make a payment of ₹2,500 to a small shopkeeper then the government wants to put charges, what’s the logic? — @Ashneer_Grover speaks to @shreyadhoundial
In Parliament today, I spoke on the “cut money” arrangement between some doctors and diagnostic centres/ pathology labs.
Diagnostic centres call it "marketing expense." Doctors call it "referral commission." All gets added to Patient's hospital bill.
A silent transaction that isn't about your treatment. It's about who referred you.
Watch this before your next medical test.
At a tea garden in Dibrugarh this morning, got a glimpse of the culture of tea garden families. Their contribution to Assam’s progress is unparalleled. Here are the highlights….
How vindictive can the SC get! We do have Justice Verma who was caught with unaccounted cash in his house ! Are SC judges above the law in India ? - CJI needs to explain.
Umr bhar judge yahi bhool karta raha, dhool chehre par thi, aaina saaf karta raha.
Judicial corruption in India is not only real, it is rampant. The Supreme court may have extracted a grovelling apology from a spineless NCERT but it forgets - you can run milords, you can't hide.
I have read the 18 page chapter on the Judiciary which was in the new NCERT textbook of class 8. I find it to be a balanced chapter about the structure, role & achievements of the Judiciary. In the last 2 pages it mentions Delays & Corruption as among the challenges faced by it.
This ham handed order by the SC is a self goal which has further highlighted the problem of corruption in the Judiciary
No Income tax upto 12L and now Lower GST rate with No GST on life and health insurance.
240 seats have done it in a year what 282 and 303 seats couldn't do in 10yrs.
STT is a draconian tax which was brought in to replace LTCG. People trusted them.
But we were fooled in 2018 as LTCG got reintroduced again with STT.
In FY22-23 STT collected was 25,000 crores, this number in FY24-25 went up to 53,000 crores !!
Today the STT collected is more than the money brokers & traders make - meaning they even make money when we lose or end up breakeven !
#AbolishSTT
Reports of Donald Trump negotiating a ceasefire between me and @MichaelVaughan are BASELESS and UNTRUE. The social media war will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #ENGvIND
@amazonIN Ordered a speed gun worth ₹15,000. Received a toy gun worth ₹500 instead. @amazonIN has denied refund/replacement.
How do you onboard sellers? On checking reviews, found the same seller has scammed others too. Why reward fraud? #AmazonScam#CustomerCheated
If any regular person had Rs 15 Cr unaccounted cash found at their place
They would have ED behind them, arrested without bail, courts would have rejected bail saying " Economic crimes tear the fabric of the nation etc"
However "Justice" Yashwant Varma is still a "Justice", roaming free with not even a FIR
What kind of system is this?
Iyer guiding Bumrah’s and Boult’s yorkers to the third man boundary… Exquisite…
This man leads Delhi to a final… and is dropped…
Leads Kolkata to a trophy… dropped…
Leads a young Punjab to the finals after 11 years.
He deserves this year’s trophy too…
On the other hand, it is Kohli… who is performing year on year… compiling thousands of runs. The final frontier for him… He deserves it too.
Whatever the result… it’s going to be a heartbreak… 😢
These interstate arrests for social media posts (unless it’s clearly demonstrated that it has lead to a law & order situation) is blatantly a misuse of police powers.
If I were PM, I’d have tasked a team with building a multistory colony called Insaniyat Villa in Anantnag, then tracked down every self-righteous preacher like him, and forcefully relocated them there, with no security, no option to leave, and then watched Insaniyat protect them.
23 wins in the last 24 ICC tournament games. The game will remember the name forever - Rohit Sharma. Great leadership with 2 of India’s 7 ICC trophies to your name @ImRo45 . @BCCI
ये प्रधानमंत्री जी गरीबों के आवास को फंड करने के लिए मिडिल क्लास घरों के कमरे घटा रहे हैं। मध्यमवर्गीय परिवारों के पास अब दो ही विकल्प हैं: घर का एस्टिमेट लो तो कमरे कम करो, या कमरे उतने रख कर उसे रेंट पर चढ़ा दो।
टैक्सदाता को ‘पुण्य’ मिलेगा। घंटा मिल रहा है, लोटा भी दे दीजिए।