" To be in accord with the fourth National Development Plan the government should increase the therapeutic per capita health care to around 11 USD by the year 2007; as a result the out of pocket (OOP) payment will decrease from current 60% to 50%" Heidarpour Shahrezaei said to ISNA. He stressed that according to the fourth National Development Plan the share of out of pocket payment (people's share in health expenditure) is to be 30%.
Source: Aftabyazd online newspaper, www.aftabyazd.com, NO: 1973 , December 27, 2006
My comment: This may be considered an incredible jump. Now, the government pays 4.5 USD per person for therapuetic health care. I think 30% increase is what we can expect instead. I'd like to add that should the government accepts to pay this magic share, it will not guarantee the expected decrease in the share of out-of-pocket payments. Sudden increase in interest rate for expensive therapeutic services by private sector soon after the rise in the goverment's share might cause OOP to go up to some extent.
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