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Asian nations are facing a dramatic rise in medical costs as they plan
for the looming demographic transition to much older populations. Rafal
Chomik, from the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research
(CEPAR) at the Australian School of Business, says that Asian
governments have the fiscal capacity to keep expanding their health
systems, but they should heed the successes and failures of reforms in
the region and elsewhere to avoid the excessive cost growth seen in the
West. Thailand is cited as a good example, and Australia’s strong front
line of GPs as well as its pharmaceutical benefits scheme are two
initiatives worth emulating, according to CEPAR investigators.
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