Healthcare Financing: Possible Answers to Modern Challenges

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The article examines modern problems of healthcare financing, their importance increasing in the context of new challenges associated with the current socio-economic and political situation, which makes doubtful the possibility of a significant increase in public funding. At the same time, healthcare costs should be considered as a health determinant, since their size has a positive effect on population life expectancy at birth. The article analyzes possible additional mechanisms that can be used to increase healthcare financing, examining their positive and negative aspects, including voluntary health insurance, sin taxes, co-payments for medical services. The author concludes that it is necessary to take into account both purely fiscal and social and ethical considerations when choosing health care financing mechanisms, as well as their influence on behavior of citizens.

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Tatiana Vladimirovna Chubarova

Institute of Economy RAS

Moscow, Russian Federation

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