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A new WHO report outlines the financial hardship many people fall into because of the cost of healthcare and explains the political tweaks that could help them. Mun-Keat Looi reports “Is it acceptable that people become poor as a result of ill health?” asks Tamas Evetovits, head of the World Health Organization’s Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing. “Acceptable or not, this is what we see across the European region.” Increasing numbers of people in Europe and central Asia are having to spend so much on healthcare that they don’t have enough money left for their other essential needs so called “catastrophic health spending,” which occurs when the amount a household pays out of pocket exceeds a certain level of capacity to pay. And this is becoming more and more common, says a WHO report published this week.1 “It means that once they’ve spent that much out of pocket they probably don’t have enough left to meet their other basic needs such as food, housi

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