gradually
disappear.
integrated into a
deployment of
overcrowding.
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All
public hospitals will be
system which will permit both the better
the elimination of
resources
and
47.
a fee
Once better
services are in place, we can consider
structure that takes more account of the improved
incomes of so many of our families.
But we will still have
а system of waiving charges for those unable to pay. It
will remain a key principle that no one will be denied
adequate medical treatment because of lack of means. As a
hospital services will remain highly subsidised by
result,
the taxpayer.
48.
Nevertheless,
I believe that a growing number of
families in the 1990s will wish to use their increasing
incomes to purchase the type of health care they want.
Their ability to do so will be made that much greater by the
expansion of medical insurance schemes. In addition, we can
expect both public and private hospitals to find ways to
cater for this new type of demand for health care. One
proposal now being considered is the introduction of
"B-class" wards
into public hospitals. These would provide
more space and privacy for those who are prepared to pay for
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