Passage Based Questions: Logical Reasoning - 12 | Passage Based Questions for CLAT Preparation PDF Download

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions. 
In Britain, the government run National Health Service (NHS) was always very popular. A 2015 survey showed that as many as 89% of British people were strongly in its favour. However, many influential British Conservatives never supported the NHS.
In 2002, Boris Johnson tore into the NHS and called it “monolithic”, “monopolistic” and “unimprovable”. In his book ‘Friends, Voters, Country-men’, he went on to suggest that “We need to think of new ways of getting private money into NHS” In 2015 Jeremy Hunt, Conservative government secretary of health, even made a deal with Bain Capital (partly owned by Mitt Romney) for supplying blood plasma in the UK.
Over the years, cuts in NHS funding crippled its functioning .The state grant it received was just about enough for running costs with little left over for infrastructural upgrading ,training and recruiting professionals. Fortunately, that attitude is all set to change, PM Johnson today is willing to rush into a burning building to save NHS, why?
Well, it was the NHS that nursed Johnson to health after Covid-19 struck him. Which is why he is now a changed man, forever grateful to this state run service. If anything, this pandemic has shown that the rich and poor can be laid low equally. Consequently, those who once demonised public health delivery are ready to switch sides.
We see the ravages of Covid-19 in India as well. Once again, the overwhelming number of health professionals taking a bullet for us- doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and paramedics-are public servants. Some years back a Universal Health cover proposal went out to the last UPA government, but that never quite got a foot in the door. One is often tempted to read left or right wing politics in healthcare, but really it is primarily, if not only, about citizenship.
Pandemics extract a terrible price but they teach us a fundamental lesson. When we fall sick together we realise the true value of staying connected.