Healthcare Spending II – Blog Post #454 by Asrar Qureshi

Healthcare Spending II – Blog Post #454 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #454. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… The concept of buying health insurance privately is virtually non-existent in Pakistan. Our people are quite familiar with life insurance, and it has been around for ages, but very few people actually get insured. Medical facility is provided to employees of government and semi-government institutions by their parent institutions. The scope of coverage and benefits varies between departments and with the grade. Some corporations offer full medical coverage to entire family even after the person has retired. Others may be less generous and may cover immediate family only....