Financing universal health coverage: four steps to go from aspiration to action

[...]governments should develop investment plans for the physical and human infrastructure needed to deliver benefits. [...]governments should develop a national health financing system, such as insurance, to fund health service delivery. To be universal, the domestic financing system must reduce re...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2019-09, Vol.394 (10202), p.902-903
Main Authors: Aman, Amir, Gashumba, Diane, Magaziner, Ira, Nordström, Anders
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Financing
Health
Insurance
Low income groups
Purchasing power
Taxation
Taxes
Vaccines
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Summary:[...]governments should develop investment plans for the physical and human infrastructure needed to deliver benefits. [...]governments should develop a national health financing system, such as insurance, to fund health service delivery. To be universal, the domestic financing system must reduce reliance on out-of-pocket payments, shifting to prepaid funds including progressive taxes, insurance premiums, or a mix of both.5–7 Resources should be pooled across large segments of the population to spread risk in any given year, with healthy people helping to subsidise sick people and wealthy people helping to subsidise poor people.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32095-1