What’s next for healthcare in Poland: diagnosis and prognosis

Stanisława Golinowska, Christoph Sowada, Marzena Tambor, Alicja Domagała and Krzysztof Kuszewski

No 156, mBank - CASE Seminar Proceedings from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: The health protection system is the object of constant pressures and difficulties in mitigating them, and even more so eliminating or at least reducing them. Changes are undertaken under the influence of a one-sided political assessment, the interests of various groups of participants or the protests of successive groups of medical staff. There is no professional and fully documented diagnosis of the system, made by independent experts, which could serve as the basis for a comprehensive health protection reform plan, rather than individual, incidental changes that disrupt the system’s already very fragile balance. A well thought-out reform, properly distributed over time, so that at no point does it cause negative health effects. A reform agreed among stakeholders and adopted with understanding of the need for changes, so that it is supported by society. A reform for which there will be funds, institutions and engaged professionals – leaders in health protection. A reform that won’t be criticized or changed when the government changes. Such a reform is waiting to be presented and debated. We begin this process by pointing out and presenting the system’s main problems.

Keywords: public health; copayments; expenditures on health; health insurance; health professionals; National Health Programs; public health problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2018-12-13
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