Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Health Care in Major Political Parties' Manifestos

Political parties have come up with their election manifestos. This ritual also includes giving their vision about health care sector. As I understand it, at its substance, this election is about creating constitution that gives a broad frame of how the country is going to be run. Accordingly, in health sector too, the debate should be about broad philosophical approaches to the structure of health care. What are these political parties talking about in health care? 

While we have to understand that whatever is written in their manifestos mean next to nothing in terms of implementation, it is still worth doing the debate. 

I will try to analyze the declarations in major political parties' manifestos in terms of:

- Relevance
- Coherence
- Practical achievability

Let me explain further:
- Relevance: Are they relevant to the current or future health care needs of the country?
- Coherence: Do the arguments go together well? Is there is central theme around which all the things revolve?
- Practical achievability: Are the declarations achievable in the current or future context of Nepal? 

I will score each of these areas from 0-5, zero being the lowest and 5 the highest in terms of aggreement with each of these 3 attributes (higher the better!). 

Let's start...

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