Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog”: Defining Benefits for Universal Health Care — How Governments Can Get the Most Bang for Their Health Care Buck
Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer and senior fellow at CGD, and Rebecca Forman, program coordinator for the Global Health Policy team at CGD, discuss the launch of and key takeaways from a new book on designing benefits for universal health coverage. The book “shows how a defined list of services that will be funded with public monies … can help bridge the gap between the aspirational rhetoric of universal health care and the real budgetary limitations that many countries face” (10/10).