How does the public health system in panama work for people not covered by social security?
January 16, 2012 by admin
Filed under Security System
Hello everybody!
I’m working on a presentation about the health system in Panama and there are a few things I still don’t quite understand about the public health system.
There are hospitals from Social Security and the Ministry of Health. Can you just go to each of these hospitals? And what happens when you are unemployed and not paying for the social security system? Can you still go to the social security hospitals then?
Thank you very much!
How the health system in panama does not work? As the average Panamanian would say, public health care is very poor, worse yet if you are not employed, less health care coverage than those with social security coverage.
in panama anyone can go to the hospital and be seen at the public hospitals for free.. but to understand the system better u first need to understand that in Panama there are two classes of people: really poor and really rich.. so normally the poor people go to the public hospitals and the rich people use the private hospital (John Hopkins hospital). But both the public and private hospitals are very nice.. the public one tends to be crowded where as the nicer private hospital is not that crowded.
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How the health system in panama does not work? As the average Panamanian would say, public health care is very poor, worse yet if you are not employed, less health care coverage than those with social security coverage.
References :