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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993300;
font-weight:bold'>What Should A Country Spend On Health Care?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>William
D. Savedoff , Senior partner<sup> </sup>at Social Insight, an international
consulting firm with expertise<sup> </sup>in economic and political analysis of
public policy, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Portland</st1:City>,<sup>
</sup><st1:State w:st="on">Maine</st1:State></st1:place>. He was formerly
affiliated with the World Health Organization<sup> </sup>and the Inter-American
Development Bank. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399;
font-weight:bold'>Health Affairs, July/August 2007 - Volume 26, Number 4 Global
Health Financing <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399;
font-weight:bold'>doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.962 - Project HOPE <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Available
online at: <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962</span></font></a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>“…..Per
capita health spending across countries ranges by more than 100 to 1, leading
many people to ask, "What should a country spend on health care?"
This paper discusses four approaches to this question and demonstrates how each
approach, in effect, answers a slightly different question, all of which are
important to public policy decisions regarding health care spending. The paper
also addresses a commonly cited World Health Organization statement that
countries should spend 5 percent of national income on health care services…”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>“….It
is difficult to say what a country should spend on maintaining and improving
its population’s health without knowing the challenges it faces. The
appropriate amount of spending in a country with a malnourished population
facing endemic malaria and an epidemic of HIV/AIDS is likely to be different
from one with limited infectious disease and a high incidence of cancer and
chronic conditions. So, to be more complete, the question would have to be
amended as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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