How to fund health?
How to fund our health care is part of the reforms the government is working on at present. Options available so far for funding the increasing cost of health care have included: from
general tax revenue; establishing a system of social insurance premiums to pay for health care, levied on each family, with income related assistance to help people pay the premiums; or to limit the
range of health services funded by the Government (the core services). The Waimarino Community Health Watch Committee has discussed various aspects of funding such as means testing; subsidies; affordable access; free paediatric services; increasing costs to abusers of services; compulsory medical insurance with government subsidies for lower income people or refunds for less of some types of use; userpays for self inflicted health problems eg alcohol, sports, smoking; the need to attend to underlying social causes of health problems; targeting of services; more money for health promotion, health education and primary health care.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 410, 29 October 1991, Page 7
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163How to fund health? Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 410, 29 October 1991, Page 7
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