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Chile became the third country in the world (after Israel and Singapore) to introduce the rule of reciprocity to receive an allograft. This means that if an individual opts for not being an organ donor, loses priority to receive a transplant. Despite the difficulties associated with its implementation, the recent Chilean reform that also incorporated the presumed consent, should be studied by those countries that are trying to overcome the severe lack of organ availability for transplantation.
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Consentimento Presumido , Comportamento Social , Doadores de Tecidos , Obtenção de Tecidos e Órgãos , Chile , HumanosRESUMO
Chile became the third country in the world (after Israel and Singapore) to introduce the rule of reciprocity to receive an allograft. This means that if an individual opts for not being an organ donor, loses priority to receive a transplant. Despite the difficulties associated with its implementation, the recent Chilean reform that also incorporated the presumed consent, should be studied by those countries that are trying to overcome the severe lack of organ availability for transplantation.
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Humanos , Consentimento Presumido , Comportamento Social , Doadores de Tecidos , Obtenção de Tecidos e Órgãos , ChileRESUMO
Private health insurance should be able to provide coverage to people considered as high risk, such as women and the elderly. The only way to do that is to organize implicit or explicit cross-subsidies from low to high-risk individuals. This paper examines how European private health insurance companies introduced regulatory measures that could be introduced in Chile such as open enrollment, community-rated premiums, lifetime coverage, a package of minimum benefits and a risk equalization scheme.
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Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde , Seguro Saúde/organização & administração , Chile , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Setor PrivadoRESUMO
This paper analyzes the constitutional problems that the private health system has faced as a result of the recent decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Chile in defense of the right to health care and nondiscrimination. It also reviews the comparative literature on health systems that have been successful in the task of reconciling the demands of equity and efficiency in the delivery of health care in the private health sector, in accordance with the constitutional principles of equality and nondiscrimination.