Box 4: Press clippings from 2006 illustrating the public debate over UCS
funding
Govt B30 health-care system ‘short of cash’
[Bangkok Post, 31 January 2006]
While the merits of the universal 30-baht health care scheme are not in
doubt, its effi ciency is being compromised due to budget constraints,
a seminar was told yesterday [...] With the 30-baht scheme, the poor had
greater access to health-care services and medical treatment, but only
10% of people suffering life-threatening illnesses survived. “This is largely
due to budget limitations,” Supasit Pannarunothai, dean of Naresuan
University’s Medical Faculty told a seminar on the universal health-care
scheme at the Thai Journalists Association. He said the government should
boost the subsidy which currently stands at 1,659 baht per head per year.
Bt 30 plan in critical condition [The Nation, 9 February 2006]
[...] nearly five years into its implementation, the Bt30 scheme
remains under-funded despite government promises to fi nd the appropriate
fi nancing. Consequently, the country’s state health care system has witnessed
a mass exodus of white-gowned professionals leaving state hospitals for
better working conditions and pay in private medical institutions.
Thammasat to quit Bt30 scheme [The Nation, 24 February 2006]
Financially strapped Thammasat University Hospital is to pull out of
Box 4: Press clippings from 2006 illustrating the public debate over UCS
funding
Govt B30 health-care system ‘short of cash’
[Bangkok Post, 31 January 2006]
While the merits of the universal 30-baht health care scheme are not in
doubt, its effi ciency is being compromised due to budget constraints,
a seminar was told yesterday [...] With the 30-baht scheme, the poor had
greater access to health-care services and medical treatment, but only
10% of people suffering life-threatening illnesses survived. “This is largely
due to budget limitations,” Supasit Pannarunothai, dean of Naresuan
University’s Medical Faculty told a seminar on the universal health-care
scheme at the Thai Journalists Association. He said the government should
boost the subsidy which currently stands at 1,659 baht per head per year.
Bt 30 plan in critical condition [The Nation, 9 February 2006]
[...] nearly five years into its implementation, the Bt30 scheme
remains under-funded despite government promises to fi nd the appropriate
fi nancing. Consequently, the country’s state health care system has witnessed
a mass exodus of white-gowned professionals leaving state hospitals for
better working conditions and pay in private medical institutions.
Thammasat to quit Bt30 scheme [The Nation, 24 February 2006]
Financially strapped Thammasat University Hospital is to pull out of
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