Private Health Spending Explodes In Hungary
- 13 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
Annual per capita spending on private health care has risen from Ft 31,000 to Ft 57,000 over the past six months, signalling that the state health care sector is deteriorating, and waiting lists are getting longer, according to the head of a private medical company.
CEO György Leitner of Diagnoscan told a background talk on the sector that health care absorbs 10% of government spending, one of the lowest figures among OECD countries.
Households spend 4% of their income on health care, a figure that is among the highest, he pointed out.
Over the past ten years, annual health care spending has increased from Ft 1.5 trillion to Ft 2.2 trillion, while the state’s share of this has fallen from 70% to 64%.
Both supply and demand are exploding in private health care, Leitner observed.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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