I'd just like to note that there are very few health care systems in the world which are not mixed public/private. Up here in Canada, down there in US, over there in the UK... all mixed to different recipes.
Depending on how you've blended your public and private funding, the one of the key challenges is that the public and private systems can end up competing for scarce resources, mostly highly technical labour. The second challenge is political, where citizens wealthy enough to afford private care question why they should have to also fund the public system. So there's a pressure to de-fund the public system and give the wealthy a refund. You can see how both these issues threaten to undermine the quality of the public system if left unchecked.
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