Consultation Document on Healthcare Reform

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• Report Cover (Opens in new window)

• Title Page (Opens in new window)

• Content (Opens in new window)

• Message from the Secretary for Food and Health (Opens in new window)

• Executive Summary (Opens in new window)

• Preamble Our Vision (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 1 The need for Change (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 2 Enhance Primary Care (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 3 Promote Public-Private Partnership in Healthcare (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 4 Develop Electronic Health Record Sharing (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 5 Strengthen Public Healthcare Safety Net (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 6 Reform Healthcare Financing Arrangements (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 7 Consequences of Maintaining Existing Financing Model (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 8 Supplementary Financing Option (1) - Social Health Insurance (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 9 Supplemantary Financing Option (2) - Out-of-Pockets Payments (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 10 Supplementary Financing Option (3) - Medical Savings Accounts (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 11 Supplementary Financing Option (4) - Voluntary Private Health Insurance (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 12 Supplementary Financing Option (5) - Mandatory Private Health Insurance (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 13 Supplementary Financing Option (6) - Personal Healthcare Reserve (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 14 Building a Healthy Tomorrow (Opens in new window)

• Chapter 15 Way Forward (Opens in new window)

• Appendix A Glossary of Terms (Opens in new window)

• Appendix B Hong Kong's Current Healthcare System (Opens in new window)

• Appendix C Hong Kong's Current Healthcare Financing Arrangements (Opens in new window)

• Appendix D Comparison with Overseas Economies' Healthcare Financing Arrangements (Opens in new window)

• Appendix E The Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee (Opens in new window)