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Financing health care: False profits and the public good

机译:卫生保健筹资:虚假利润和公益

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Fiscal consolidation, escalating health care costs and demographic changes are placing universal public health care under increasing pressure. In this environment the idea that the private sector is more efficient, effective and better able to fund health care than the public sector has been promoted. After almost thirty years of privatisation in the health care sector the evidence shows that these claims do not reflect the evidence. Comparisons of total health spending at national level show that countries with higher private spending on health spend more on health care and achieve worse results in key indicators of national health. Countries such as the UK and Sweden spend less than 10% of GDP on health care, of which over 80% is public expenditure. By comparison the USA spends almost 18% of GDP on health care, of which less than 50% is public, but has lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality rates. France which has very high life expectancy and low infant mortality rates spends 11.4% of GDP on health of which 76.7% is public. The reasons for the efficiency and effectiveness of the public provision of health are not complex. Administrative costs of public insurers are routinely and dramatically lower than private insurers. Public systems, with a single payer system in the form of a government or state run agency, produce efficiencies of scale and are better able to control costs.
机译:财政合并,医疗保健费用不断上涨和人口变化正在使全民公共医疗保健面临越来越大的压力。在这种环境下,人们提出了一种想法,即私营部门比公共部门更有效率,更有效并且能够更好地为医疗保健提供资金。经过近30年的医疗保健部门私有化,证据表明这些说法并不反映证据。国家一级卫生总支出的比较表明,私人卫生支出较高的国家在卫生保健上的支出更多,而在国民卫生关键指标上却取得了较差的结果。英国和瑞典等国家在医疗保健上的支出不到GDP的10%,其中80%以上是公共支出。相比之下,美国在医疗保健上的支出几乎占GDP的18%,其中公共支出不到50%,但预期寿命较低,婴儿死亡率较高。法国的预期寿命很高,婴儿死亡率很低,在卫生方面的支出占GDP的11.4%,其中76.7%为公共卫生支出。公共卫生提供效率和效力的原因并不复杂。公营保险公司的行政费用通常比私人保险公司低很多。具有政府或国营机构形式的单一付款者系统的公共系统可以产生规模效益,并且能够更好地控制成本。

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    Lethbridge Jane;

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