Alternative financing for health care: A path to sustainability?

Health care financing and the sustainability of health systems

The economic crisis brought an unprecedented attention to the issue of health system sustainability in the developed world. The discussion, however, has been mainly limited to "traditional" issues of cost-effectiveness, quality of care, and, lately, patient involvement. Not enough attention has yet been paid to the issue of who pays and, more importantly, to the sustainability of financing. Thi...

Individual Health Accounts: An Alternative Health Care Financing Approach

After examining the major determinants of inefficiency in health care markets and several recent proposals to correct these problems, this paper introduces a market-oriented alternative which could be highly efficient while meeting all the established goals of a national health plan. To achieve these objectives, traditional forms of insurance would be replaced by a system with the following cha...

Alternative Sustainable Financing of Public Health Care in Kenya

The pursuit of quality health care has been the concern of Kenya government in collaboration with key stakeholders including donors, NGOs, CBOs among others. To realize this, government has continued to develop and implement various national health policies and strategies necessary for enhancing financing of a wellfunctioning health system. Due to the economic reforms and performance experience...

Health care financing for severe developmental disabilities.

The 1985-86 data from 308 children and young adults under age 25 with autism and from 326 with severe or profound mental retardation can be compared to national data from the 1980 MNCUES and the 1987 NMES because the methods are similar. These data provide detailed answers to the questions, what health care services are used? what are the expenses? Who pays them? Until now, the absence of compr...

Medicare financing for mental health care.