State and problems of state financing of the healthcare in Ukraine

The article analyses the state and specific features of financial provision of the healthcare system in Ukraine compared to other countries of the world. It proves existence of dependence between the general healthcare expenditures and life expectancy of the population. Using the curve of production possibilities, the article determines the level of deficit of financial resources in the medical sphere. It used exponential regression by unit logarithmic scale for calculation. Analysis was conducted with the use of indicators by 184 countries of the world (data for 2011 were taken), which were divided into 9 groups, depending on the level of GDP per capita, with the help of analytical grouping. In the result of the calculation it was determined that in order to achieve indicators of developed countries, which characterise efficiency of the healthcare system activity, Ukraine needs to additionally spend USD 36.2 thousand million annually. The article marks out main reasons of inefficiency of use of financial resources in the Ukrainian healthcare system, which allowed assessing the potential saving of state funds from increase of efficiency by groups of analysed components.