What Are the Pillars of a National Health Program? FIVE KEY
PILLARS are necessary to support national health according to
these reports. They are: (1) distribution of the costs of health
services, (2) establishment of hospital and public health
facilities, (3) organization of medical service: to promote a
high quality of care, (4) administration satisfactory to
patients and the professions, and (5) promotion of continued
scientific research and education. Distribution of costs
Starting out with the twin assumptions that the present
individual pay-as-you-go method of meeting medical costs has
proved itself unsuited to the needs of the population and that
voluntary insurance is too limited in scope, advocates of
national health program recognize two alternative ways of
meeting medical costs. Both methods of payment are based on the
fact that while individuals can never predict when they will be
sick or how expensive their illnesses will be, the expected
incidence of illness for large groups of people and its co