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  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
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Health care » Care
  • Government » Private
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    F8016
    DOCID
    11680160
    D7NID
    153431
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024
    Official link
    https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/prohibitive-cost-private-medical-care