- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
On Public Health Care Finances
On Public Health Care Finances
- Chapter:
- (p.167) 17 On Public Health Care Finances
- Source:
- Diversity and Occasional Anarchy
- Author(s):
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter discusses the cost of financing public health care in Hong Kong, assuming that the present health care system remains largely unchanged. A number of simple projections regarding the public cost involved are made, and the associated results are analyzed. The author claims that increasing the supply of doctors and nurses through foreign importation and local education-training are necessary in a bid to arrest the deterioration of service quality and delivery in the Hospital Authority. Hong Kong's rapidly ageing population will tremendously increase the demand for health care services. Yet public money that can be allocated to health care services is not going to increase accordingly; it might even shrink. Therefore it is of key importance to come up with a pro-active plan to boost Hong Kong's working population growth as well as the supply of health care personnel.
Keywords: Hospital Authority, Public health care, Health care services, Health care personnel, Service quality, Policies, Hong Kong, China, Economy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
