Ownership changes in the Hungarian healthcare sector, 1990-2017

Authors

  • Peter Mihalyi Corvinus University of Budapest Macroeconomics Department

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15678/ZP.2017.41.3.06

Keywords:

Hungary, healthcare, reforms, social security system

Abstract

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.

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Author Biography

Peter Mihalyi, Corvinus University of Budapest Macroeconomics Department

Fővám tér 8
Budapest, H-1093

Published

2018-02-09

How to Cite

Mihalyi, P. (2018). Ownership changes in the Hungarian healthcare sector, 1990-2017. Journal of Public Governance, 41(3), 83–97. https://doi.org/10.15678/ZP.2017.41.3.06