PHM-Exch> Universal Health Coverage: key to the success of the World Bank’s new vision. Oxfam

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From: Global Health Check <globalhealthcheckblog at gmail.com>

*Universal Health Coverage: key to the success of the World Bank’s new
vision *

by Katie Malouf

“We must be the generation that delivers universal health coverage.” – WBG
President Jim Yong Kim in a speech to the World Health Assembly, May 2013
As the World Bank Group’s Annual Meetings come to Washington this weekend,
there is much talk of President Jim Yong Kim’s new strategy to achieve the
institution’s updated vision: ...

Conditions that are necessary for health systems to be equitable and
universal:  Four key ingredients to successful financing for UHC: removal
of direct payments and other financial barriers, compulsory pre-payment,
large risk pools, and financing from general revenues to cover the
uncovered.   (Conventional insurance schemes – whether private,
community-based or European-style social health insurance – come up short
when measured against these criteria).

Since UHC is about access to quality care for everyone regardless of
ability to pay, governments must move away from relying on employment-based
and contributory insurance models.  Instead, health care must become a
right of citizenship (or residency), financed in large part through general
government revenues.  Equity must be designed into the system from the
beginning, rather than starting with the easiest to reach in the formal
sector.
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Anna Marriott
Global Health Check editor
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