NHI: The problem with trying to kill two birds with one stone

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The National Health Insurance scheme aims to solve two problems simultaneously. But trying to fix two issues at once may make things worse. | via bhekisisa_MG

in parliament, has provisions for how hospitals will be better run using a system where health facilities will be decentralised but funds will be controlled nationally.

Though those of us who work closely with the public health service naturally welcome the expected increase in public sector funding, it is incorrect to assume that this will automatically improve badly run public hospitals. If you throw more money at them, things might look somewhat better for a while, but it would be just hiding the truth of the failing system of management.

I can’t help feeling that the sequence here has to be: first we fix public health care to a decent standard that is possible within the existing financial framework, then we move on to redistributing resources between the public and private health sectors.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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