"How ought one decide what to include in a national health insurance scheme? Some simple economic principles.”
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2019-03-14
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Given a few important social value judgments:
All public health spending ought to create health/reduce ill-health
Making Universal Health Coverage have its maximum impact on the nation’s health is a moral imperative
Getting a fairer distribution of health care resources and of healthy life chances is a moral imperative
Offering financial protection from personal health expenditures is a moral imperative
I argue that a simple analogy helps us to decide what interventions in public and personal healthcare ought to be included in public health insurance schemes and which ones not.
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National Health Insurance Scheme, ill-health, health care, financial protection