A voucher scheme that gives elderly Hong Kong residents HK$2,000 a year to use for private health care has failed to ease overcrowding at public hospitals and has not been “cost effective”, the city’s former top health official said on Monday.Professor Yeoh Eng-kiong, now head of public health and primary care at Chinese University, said even years after the programme was adopted, 78 per cent of elderly patients still went to public clinics, while 73 per cent did so before the vouchers were…
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