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  2. World problems
  3. Prohibitive cost of private medical care

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
Presentable

Aggravates

Inadequate health services
Excellent
Inadequate community care for handicapped persons
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Unethical practice of health professionals
Presentable
Inadequate community care for transient urban populations
Presentable

Strategy

Reducing government expenditure on tertiary health facilities
Presentable
Reducing cost of social security
Yet to rate
Reducing cost of private medical care
Yet to rate
Providing private medical care
Yet to rate

Value

Prohibition
Yet to rate
Costliness
Yet to rate
Care
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Health care » Care
  • Government » Private
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024