The public expenditure has to be financed.
And it ought to be financed broadly.
Most have to be financed by taxation.
"There are lots of smaller-ticket items that can be financed over time in the normal course of budgeting from city agencies," Mr. Kavanagh said.
The township health centers (THCs) and village clinics were obligated to provide these items and were financed by public health funding, which was raised by the central and local governments.
For this to occur, each national programme must ideally be financed by its inclusion as a line item in the MOH budget.
Unlike traditional member items, those expenditures are financed by borrowed money, part of an almost unprecedented spree of state borrowing totaling $8 billion for this fiscal year.
The hospitals are financed according to a historical budget.
There are no reliable estimates of the cost of health care services in Ukraine due to the existence of the public funding system where facilities are financed on a line-item budget principle regardless of the number of services provided.
