“Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley (USA), Richard Scheffler, said that Spain needs to reform its health system towards an integral and coordinated system to cope with the aging of the population and in that way reduce health spending… ‘Between 1996 and 2010, despite the crisis, the health spending per capita increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent. From 2014, the forecasting managed by the World Bank is that this growth will stabilize at 0.5 percent annually. Nevertheless, according to this institution, Spain will not be able to allocate more resources to the health budget. This is an important problem when thinking about health policy. Spain has to be more effective and efficient in their health system,’ he stressed.”
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