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Prohibitive cost of private medical care
Claim
Private medical care can charge mark-ups of 200 to 1,000% on prescription drugs and dressings without providing detailed itemized bills for customers.
Broader
Prohibitive medical expenses
This problem is a member of 3 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Inadequate health services
[in 3 loops]
Inadequate community care for handicapped persons
Aggravated by
Unethical practice of health professionals
Inadequate community care for transient urban populations
Strategy(ies)
Reducing government expenditure on tertiary health facilities
Reducing cost of private medical care
Providing private medical care
Reducing cost of social security
Value(s)
Care
Costliness
Prohibition
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems