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Handicapped by old and new traps: Hungary's health care reform
Author(s) -
Orosz Eva
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international social security review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1468-246X
pISSN - 0020-871X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-246x.1991.tb00893.x
Subject(s) - legislation , health care reform , health care , state (computer science) , politics , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , health policy , political science , public administration , service (business) , population , economic growth , economic policy , business , economics , economy , medicine , law , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , gene
Since the early 1980s, grave challenges have faced Hungarian health policy. The health status of the population stagnated between the mid‐1960s and mid‐1970s, and has dramatically deteriorated since then. In the 1980s the multidimensional crisis of the health care system deepened. Its overhaul must embrace every component: policy‐making, ownership, financing, management, service structure, patient rights, medical education, etc. The main purpose of this paper is to describe how health policy has (or has not) responded to these challenges. First it summarizes the inheritance of the state‐socialist regime, then it outlines the recent changes in social insurance legislation, and finally it compares official goals with the way the reform is actually proceeding. The paper is intended to discuss the connection between health care reform and the historic transformation of the political regime and the economy.