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Ownership changes in the Hungarian healthcare sector, 1990–2017

Zmiany własnościowe w węgierskim sektorze opieki zdrowotnej w latach 1990–2017

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Peter Mihalyi

Corvinus University of Budapest
Macroeconomics Department
Fővám tér 8
Budapest, H-1093
Hungary
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doi: https://doi.org/10.15678/ZP.2017.41.3.06

SŁOWA KLUCZOWE

Węgry, opieka zdrowotna, reformy, system zabezpieczenia społecznego

KEYWORDS

Hungary, healthcare, reforms, social security system

STRESZCZENIE

The paper’s objective is to provide a historical account of the most important changes in two aspects of Hungarian healthcare: financing and provision. It will be shown that after a promising start to the necessary post-communist reforms, a complete reversal took place after 2010. The separation between financing and provision ended. By 2017, the Ministry of the Economy – like the Planning Office under the socialist system – has regained absolute control over the entire healthcare sector, including both financing and provision. Even the Ministry of Health ceased to exist in 2010.

ABSTRACT

W artykule zaprezentowano historyczny bilans najważniejszych zmian w dwóch sferach opieki zdrowotnej na Węgrzech: finansowania i świadczenia usług. Wykazano, że po obiecującym starcie reform koniecznych w okresie wychodzenia z komunizmu po 2010 r. nastąpiła całkowita zmiana kierunku działań. Podział na płatnika i świadczeniodawcę zakończył się. W 2017 r. Ministerstwo Gospodarki – podobnie jak Biuro Planowania w systemie socjalistycznym – odzyskało pełną kontrolę nad całym sektorem opieki zdrowotnej, czyli zarówno w sferze finansowania, jak i świadczenia usług. Ministerstwo Zdrowia jako takie przestało istnieć w 2010 r.

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SUGEROWANE CYTOWANIE / SUGGESTED CITATION

Mihalyi P. (2017), Ownership changes in the Hungarian healthcare sector, 1990–2017, Zarządzanie Publiczne, nr 3 (41), s. 83-97, https://doi.org/10.15678/ZP.2017.41.3.06.
 

 

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