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What role should the government play in providing citizens with health care? What role should the marketplace play?

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Ayman El Alfy
by Ayman El Alfy , BOD Advisor , Global Advice Insurance Brokrage “GAIB”

  1. The Government should provide a good and satisfactory health services for its citizens by improving the quality of services provided by the governmental medical providers.

It should also encourage medical insurance companies to participate in the overall management of the health care.

It should make medical insurance obligatory to all its citizines by collecting a reasonable contribution and it should pay on behalf of the poor people. In the mean time, it is completely responsible for covering all kinds of diseases in the public and Governomental medical providers. 

However, it is solely responsible for the epidemic diseases, prophylactic measures such as vaccinations, national catastrophic, etc.  

Best regards,

Zakiur Rahman Meccai
by Zakiur Rahman Meccai , Facilities Manager , Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group

The Government should Play a role of making it mandatory  for all companies & Industries to provide  Health Care Insurance to all its  Employees including their families.

The Government should promote healthy competition among Health Care Insurance providers so that the customer gets the best health care coverage for thier policies with the best prices.

The government make sure that the Government Hospital Sector and the Private Hospital Sectors are delivering the best Health Care service to the Citizens and make sure that each and every citizen gets the health care coverage.

The Government should make regulations so that qualified doctors, nurses, the best diagnostic labs and latest machinery, trained technicians & manpower to operate them are available so that quality health care can be provided locally.

The Market place should play a role of providing the best of the private Health Care hospitals covering all the specilization in the health care field for the citizens and best of the Health care Educational Institutions, the best Insurance providers.               

Legislation in health care should be directed towards the patient's commitment to prevention, which is primarily aimed at prevention, early detection of the disease, increased healing success, less disability, preserved work activity and therefore less treatment costs and care of severe consequences and complications of particularly chronic diseases

 

(1) purchase health care

(2) provide health care

(3) ensure access to quality care for vulnerable populations

(4) regulate health care markets

(5) support acquisition of new knowledge

(6) develop and evaluate health technologies and practices

(7) monitor health care quality

(8) inform health care decision makers

(9) develop the health care workforce

(10) convene stakeholders from across the health care system.

nasrullah jan faizullah
by nasrullah jan faizullah , Project HSSE Coordinator , Panorama Contracting & eng Qatar

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.

There is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are nations. Implicitly, nations must design and develop health systems in accordance with their needs and resources, although common elements in virtually all health systems are primary healthcare and public health measures.[1] In some countries, health system planning is distributed among market participants. In others, there is a concerted effort among governments, trade unions, charities, religious organizations, or other co-ordinated bodies to deliver planned health care services targeted to the populations they serve. However, health care planning has been described as often evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

 

Definitions

Often healthcare system has been defined with a reductionist perspective, for example reducing it to healthcare system. In many publications, for example, both expressions are used interchangeably. Some authors have developed arguments to expand the concept of health systems, indicating additional dimensions that should be considered:

Health systems should not be expressed in terms of their components only, but also of their interrelationships;

Health systems should include not only the institutional or supply side of the health system, but also the population;

Health systems must be seen in terms of their goals, which include not only health improvement, but also equity, responsiveness to legitimate expectations, respect of dignity, and fair financing, among others;

Health systems must also be defined in terms of their functions, including the direct provision of services, whether they are medical or public health services, but also "other enabling functions, such as stewardship, financing, and resource generation, including what is probably the most complex of all challenges, the health workforce.

A framework shall  provided for understanding the 10 roles that government plays in improving health care quality and safety in the country . Examples of proposed federal actions to reduce medical errors  the 10 roles: (1) purchase health care, (2) provide health care, (3) ensure access to quality care for vulnerable populations, (4) regulate health care markets, (5) support acquisition of new knowledge, (6) develop and evaluate health technologies and practices, (7) monitor health care quality, (8) inform health care decision makers, (9) develop the health care workforce, and (10) convene stakeholders from across the health care system.

Financial resources/role  marketplace

 The market alone cannot ensure all people to have  access to quality health care, the government must preserve the interests of its citizens by supplementing the market where there are gaps and regulating the market where there is inefficiency or unfairness. The ultimate goal of achieving high quality of care will require strong partnerships among federal, state, and local governments and the private sector. 

There are generally five primary methods of funding health systems:

1.general taxation to the state, county or municipality

2. national health insurance

3. voluntary or private health insurance

4. out-of-pocket payments

5. donations to charities

DrSedeek ElHakeem
by DrSedeek ElHakeem , Health Insurance advisor , HICARE

Thanks for giving me this great chance to answer this valuable question

for govenment should provide for their citizens at least the basic health care services which include primary healthcare 

and emergency and hospitalization according to patient medical needs

but for cosmetic procedures and other services may be not provided and should be covered by private health insurance 

regards

Tabassum Inamdar
by Tabassum Inamdar , Project manager- Quality and Business Operations , Mobile Doctors

A comprehensive insurance scheme, where the provider and payers directly talk to each other, reducing costs and third party commission, at the same time, reducing administrative costs for the provider

Mohaned Motamed
by Mohaned Motamed , Medical Insurance Specialist and Documents Analyst , Waha Oil Company

There is many different ways to offer the citizens with national care plans.

 but i prefer health insurance based on the social security services 

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