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Article: Recovering costs. (family planning)
- Article from:
- Population Reports
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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Some governments and most private nonprofit family planning organizations recover some of the costs of family planning services directly from consumers or their employers. Public and private nonprofit family planning services remain largely subsidized services, however. Recovering some costs helps to stretch these subsidies further.
Cost-recovery can take several forms. The most important are:
* Charging users for family planning services,
* Cross-subsidizing family planning services--i.e., charging users of curative or laboratory services more than their cost and using the difference to pay for family planning services, and
* ...