In addition to „how to fund“ (public/private health insurance) it is also very important „what to fund.“ Prevention is better than cure! I think we should shift more focus on funding prevention, however, our healthcare system and legal framework is still too treatment based. For sure, treatment must be reimbursed as well, but systematic and well organized prevention could reduce need for expensive treatments. Prevention is a wider issue and rooted in the way of living and therefore, everyone has a part in it and can contribute to more positive outcomes – schools, employers, healthcare providers, regulators, investors and different service providers. We all should look for ways to support initiatives that encourage people to make healthier choices. A bit “spicy” example – a life insurance provider is planning to pay health dividends based on the client’s healthy lifestyle choices.

The other issue I would like to raise is patient education. Money is waisted if a patient is at a wrong time in a wrong physician’s office. I hear this all the time from healthcare service providers that patients do not know when and where to turn with their health concerns – too many come either too late or with every little “scratch”. Maybe we should think on more understandable ways and wider selection of sources (incl. schools, employers) to provide information on that (copy-paste summaries from legal acts on some websites do not work).