Likewise, user fees discourage the poor and elderly from accessing needed health services, whereas public funding largely eliminates inequities in the provision of care while producing health outcomes that are as good as, if not better than, mixed public-private funding models. Public funding also benefits a country’s economy, because large employers are spared the expense of providing health benefits to their workers.
同样地，病人付费使穷人和老人面对他们所需要的健康服务时望而却步，而公共基金在很大程度上消除了在提供护理上的不公平，同时产生的健康成果与混合了公共和个人的基金模型同样好，如果不是更好的话。公共基金还会使国家的经济受益，因为大量的雇主节省了给他们的工人提供健康福利的费用。