Cost-sharing in Health : An Appropriate Aspiration for Ukraine?

Ukraine’s fight for its values and its future has become an inspiration to the democratic world. That fight comes at an unthinkable human cost, and it will likely only sharpen the expectations of a strong state capable of effectively serving its ci...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	POST-TRANSITION REFORM INFORMAL OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS VULNERABLE GROUPS VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE COST-SHARE STRATEGIES KEY RISKS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099310108042274436/P1703210787cc70bc0be4103c821960330f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37832

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spelling	okr-10986-378322022-08-20T05:10:28Z Cost-sharing in Health : An Appropriate Aspiration for Ukraine? World Bank POST-TRANSITION REFORM INFORMAL OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS VULNERABLE GROUPS VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE COST-SHARE STRATEGIES KEY RISKS Ukraine’s fight for its values and its future has become an inspiration to the democratic world. That fight comes at an unthinkable human cost, and it will likely only sharpen the expectations of a strong state capable of effectively serving its citizens, who are also taxpayers. A pressing problem to be addressed is the widespread, overwhelming, toxic informality of private financing for health care. For citizens who pay for care for an ill family member, often at the risk of becoming impoverished, the lack of accountability of service providers for results or quality is a grave injustice and a clear threat to social cohesion and economic confidence. This note discusses the idea of cost-sharing for publicly funded health care as Ukraine searches for a socially acceptable trade-off in the scale of public health care coverage. The note looks at possible risks to the population’s health and financial protection as well as possible reasons that may be driving individual and government willingness to take these risks. It also provides numerical simulations to answer the practical question of how much revenue could be generated through co-payments, and poses a question of its own, as the Ukrainian saying goes: is the game worth the candles 2022-08-04T17:06:12Z 2022-08-04T17:06:12Z 2022 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099310108042274436/P1703210787cc70bc0be4103c821960330f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37832 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Health Study Europe and Central Asia Ukraine
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description	Ukraine’s fight for its values and its future has become an inspiration to the democratic world. That fight comes at an unthinkable human cost, and it will likely only sharpen the expectations of a strong state capable of effectively serving its citizens, who are also taxpayers. A pressing problem to be addressed is the widespread, overwhelming, toxic informality of private financing for health care. For citizens who pay for care for an ill family member, often at the risk of becoming impoverished, the lack of accountability of service providers for results or quality is a grave injustice and a clear threat to social cohesion and economic confidence. This note discusses the idea of cost-sharing for publicly funded health care as Ukraine searches for a socially acceptable trade-off in the scale of public health care coverage. The note looks at possible risks to the population’s health and financial protection as well as possible reasons that may be driving individual and government willingness to take these risks. It also provides numerical simulations to answer the practical question of how much revenue could be generated through co-payments, and poses a question of its own, as the Ukrainian saying goes: is the game worth the candles
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title	Cost-sharing in Health : An Appropriate Aspiration for Ukraine?
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title_full	Cost-sharing in Health : An Appropriate Aspiration for Ukraine?
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Cost-sharing in Health : An Appropriate Aspiration for Ukraine?

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