Table 1 Decision-makers forecast of the public’s preferences for the government role in healthcare and the actual distribution of the public’s responses in the survey
From: Decision-makers’ acquaintance with the public’s priorities in health services
The options presented | Decision-makers forecast | Distribution of the public’s responses |
|---|---|---|
# (%) | %a | |
1. The government provides healthcare for everybody and finances them from the taxes collected from the citizens. There are no HMOs, the government is the HMO of everybody. | 2 (10) | 35 |
Between options 1 and 2 | 3 (14) | |
2. Health Care Organizations provide healthcare. The citizen pays health insurance to government and the government distributes the revenues among the HMOs | 15 (71) | 43 |
3. All is private. The citizen buys him/herself health insurance. The government only supervises and regulates health services and only funds the insurance for vulnerable populations. | 0 | 18 |
Between 1 and 3 | 1 (5) |