Summary |
Governments in low-and middle-income countries have tried to reach these excluded populations through public clinics and hospitals. To pay for these services governments usually use a combination of broad-based general revenues, contributions from the formal labor force, and user fees, similar to the time-tried financing mechanisms used by Western industrial countries. But the same formal financing instruments do not work as well in many developing countries, leaving many of the poor without needed health care or financial protection against the cost of illness.
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