Centralization in Hungarian healthcare

What is it about?

The Bismarckian model of mandatory social health insurance scheme was replaced by a tax-financed system, closely resembling to the British NHS model. The network of hospitals previously owned by local governments was nationalized and the Ministry responsible for healthcare became the owner of the entire hospital sector. The right of patients to choose hospitals was strictly limited. On the financial side, the government has made cuts of public health expenditures in the order of 1% of GDP.

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