Healthcare Reforms in Bulgaria: Towards Diagnosis and Prescription
Healthcare Reforms in Bulgaria: Towards Diagnosis and Prescription
Author(s): Konstantin Pashev
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Economy, Sociology, Applied Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Център за изследване на демокрацията
Summary/Abstract: The paper shows the evolution of this reform path to low compliance by both customers (contributors) and service-providers (contractors with the National Health Insurance Fund), which leads to excessive regulations and control, and crowding out of the private sector. The outcome is a system that is increasingly driven by administrative controls at the expense of market incentives. Based on this analysis it identifies the relevant policy implications and opportunities for moving the stalled health reforms out of the institutional impasse.
Series: CSD Papers on Politics
- Page Count: 36
- Publication Year: 2006
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
- Introduction