{"id":152,"date":"2015-10-08T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacificprime.hk\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:21:06","slug":"the-impact-of-health-care-costs-on-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificprime.hk\/blog\/the-impact-of-health-care-costs-on-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of health care costs on insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visit a public medical center or hospital in Hong Kong and you will be paying the same general amount as every other person who seeks medical care from the public sector. After all, the <\/span>Hong Kong Health Authority<\/span><\/a> publishes the health care costs\u00a0and charges levied at all public facilities. This, in turn, makes it easier to judge what you are going to be billed when you visit these facilities. <\/span><\/p>\n

Visit a private clinic, however, and you will find some with high health care costs. Some will be close to what the public centers charge, while others will charge 10 times that amount or more. It’s true that many of the private centers will offer better and more personal care, but the reality is, private medical costs in Hong Kong have been skyrocketing in the past decade, and will continue to do so into the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n