A Hong Kong voucher scheme that pays for public sector patients to use private health care services should be scaled up to help with disease prevention and to ease the burden on overloaded government hospitals, an independent think tank has urged.
Our Hong Kong Foundation, formed in 2014 by former Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, also called for greater investment in primary care, citing data which suggested that every HK$1 worth of resources cut HK$8.40 off the cost of acute and emergency...
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