The National Health Care Trust Plan: a blueprint for market and long-term care reform.

Political and Cultural Foundations of Long-term Care Reform; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

This paper comments on Naoki Ikegami’s editorial entitled “Financing long-term care: lessons from Japan.” Adding to the editorial, this paper focuses on analyzing the political and cultural foundations of long-term care (LTC) reform. Intergenerational solidarity and inclusive, prudential public deliberation are needed for the establishment or reform of LTC systems. Amon...

Sustainability of Long-term Care: Puzzling Tasks Ahead for Policy-Makers

Background The sustainability of long-term care (LTC) is a prominent policy priority in many Western countries. LTC is one of the most pressing fiscal issues for the growing population of elderly people in the European Union (EU) Member States. Country recommendations regarding LTC are prominent under the EU’s European Semester.   Methods This paper examines challenges related to the financial-...

Assessment of the Role of Health System Reform Plan in Franchise Reduction for Patients Referred to University Hospitals in Iran

Background: Today health care system is considered as a important organization to achieve equity and improve the performance so it is necessary for policy makers and decision makers improve performance of health care system. This study was performed to evaluate the health care reform program with emphasis to decrease catastrophic payment of patients hospitalized in public hospitals.  Me...

Current Status of Long-term Care in Taiwan: Transition of Long-term Care Plan From 1.0 to 2.0

Evaluation of the National Health Care Reform Program from the Perspective of Experts

Background: Health is a national priority and it is always a duty of the government to establish a good and fair health system. The National heath care system reform program and evaluation of health system reform plan funding these programs were enforced by the Honorable Minister of Health and Medical Education on May 5th, 2014. Given the importance of this issue, the present study was conduc...