PHM-Exch> WHR 2010 - Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage (3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

   From:    bhartiomesh at yahoo <bhartiomesh at yahoo.com>.com



                    The issue raised by David Werner is very very relevent
and sums up many things in a few sentences. He has suggested that the only
way to universal health coverage is as the WHO report puts it *"
indisputable conclusion is that the only way that Health Care for All can be
approached is through Universal Health Coverage managed and paid for
collectively, whereby the rich and the healthy are obliged to help pay for
the health costs of the the poor and the sick -- through what directly or
indirectly comes down to progressive taxation."
*
But the problem is, as one of the presenter in symposium in Montreux said,
that the more economic disparities, the more the resistance towards more
taxes on the rich, so politically strong movements are required to force the
politicians, who themselves are rich, to go in for risk sharing mechanisms
to make universal healthcare a reality and not just only a facinating
debate.
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