Heartfile Health Financing Providing Access to Life-saving Health Care for Pakistan

Globally, more than 100 million people become impoverished and a further 150 million face severe financial hardship as a result of health care payments.This is a critical barrier to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), a central pillar of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Agenda 2030. Heartfile Health Financing (HHF) is a new and a third type of a health financing model, a fund-based health care purchasing system. The objective of HHF is to supplement the Beveridge and Bismarck models in mixed health systems to achieve UHC. JSI, 2017.